Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |
| 2 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 3 | He will carry on from me , perhaps , as I have carried on from my father . |
| 4 | Bruce Weber 's arty portrait of the now-dead jazzman Chet Baker is hopelessly pretentious — all black and white fashion shots and sun-burst silhouettes — but all this is forgotten as you get caught up in Baker 's sad , pathetic life story . |
| 5 | She was only half-committed to the new idea herself , not nearly as sure about it as she had made out to Nails — heaven knows how they would fit in all that training , teaching three boys to ride ! |
| 6 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 7 | He could have stood the writing as long as she had looked up to him for guidance like one of his young workshop pupils . |
| 8 | He must have been on the phone as soon as she had stormed out of the door . |
| 9 | Pete , thinking of the Venetz sisters ' reputation for efficiency and attention to detail , asked her if she 'd hit any problems over having no social security records or documentation ; she currently had the status of an illegal immigrant , after all , and had even dumped her hot French passport as she 'd walked out of the 78 air terminal . |
| 10 | At least , he 'd hated her after that single flare of interest as she 'd climbed out of Peter 's hired jeep , but it had died instantly when , striding boyishly round the front of the vehicle , Peter had gone straight up to his elder brother and announced , ‘ Meet my amazing fiancée , big brother ! ’ |
| 11 | We would all come back to reboard the train after the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes on Wednesday , and cocktails and dinner would be served as soon as we 'd rolled out of the station . |
| 12 | It 's unfortunate your big end 's gone just as we 've run out of lanolin , will axle grease do ? |
| 13 | okay well I think we 'll er , we 'll probably have to stop this as we 've run out of time , let me , let me ask the people here one final question , are you in love right now ? , button one for yes and button two for no my goodness , sixty two people are rushing home , the other thirty eight |
| 14 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 15 | Er and to that extent , as we have set out in our evid in our submissions . |
| 16 | This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement . |
| 17 | His buffaloes , some ten in number , were straggling up towards the road and he said he would leave as soon as they had grazed up to where he was sitting . |
| 18 | The superintendent started eating hers as soon as they had turned out of Chester Row , peeling back the clingfilm with one hand while shuffling through the sheaf of papers she held in her lap with the other : formal , typewritten statements from people at TV London who had something relevant to say about Nicola Sharpe . |
| 19 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 20 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 21 | Two members of the PAIN organisation went to Orkney to prepare a report on the events as they had happened up to that point , and to compare the reality with the guidelines . |
| 22 | She walked up the stone stairs to the sound of the scratchy long-playing record , highlights from Turandot , which she had put on as they had sat down for dinner . |
| 23 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 24 | Miles had remained silent as they had paddled out into the water , though his heart was full of anger and grief . |
| 25 | Filter cartridges , for instance , need regular changing as they get clogged up after about six months . |
| 26 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 27 | whatever so there was something to keep them occupied and erm you know have a bag and as soon as they got fed up with that right you 'd get something else out to take their interest and |
| 28 | In so far as they have grown up in an ad hoc fashion , designed by the art colleges on an individual basis , it is difficult to generalize about them . |
| 29 | The most powerful is that the figures , inaccurate as they have turned out to be , convinced experts employed by big investors and banks such as National Westminster . |
| 30 | The Italian team 's French driver Jean Alesi posed for photographers in the new model but was unable to demonstrate the lightweight 644-B 's abilities at the car 's unveiling as it had broken down on Tuesday before it could be taken on a test run . |