Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken from her monthly BBC Radio ‘ Woman 's Hour ’ series and culminating as she flies over for the opening night of ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ . |
| 2 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 3 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 4 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 5 | As she stalks off into the night . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 7 | Hailed as the next Sophia Loren , the dark-eyed Italian is set to take the fashion world by storm as she steps out in the latest clothes by rainwear company Four Seasons . |
| 8 | Greet the interviewee as she/he comes in to the room . |
| 9 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 10 | Oh it will change again as soon as it goes round to the , to the three four one again er y you do n't see it changing it but |
| 11 | Derived from the Indian reel , with extensions to allow the line to run free as it spools out with the ends spinning in the hands , the plastic reel is to be recommended . |
| 12 | The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish . |
| 13 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 14 | The confidential reports , leaked by the unions , were compiled by 15 internal ‘ taskforces ’ charged with considering the BBC 's prospects as it gears up for the public debate over renewing its royal charter in 1996 . |
| 15 | When knitting your samples did you notice that although the back bed was making the pattern , the design actually shows on the work facing you as it comes down between the beds ? |
| 16 | It has the speed , the stamina and the ability to think as it moves in for the kill and needs to out-think a twisting and turning rabbit . |
| 17 | The surf as it rolls in upon the beach ; sea ; wave ; a billow. 2 . |
| 18 | And he said , " Very well , I will bless your bottom as it sticks out of the hole . |
| 19 | If such measures lead to replacement of all today 's inefficient equipment as it wears out by the most efficient equipment now on the market , Sweden will need only 111 TWh of electricity in 2010 , rather than 140 TWh . |
| 20 | creating a polymer film at the air-tear interface which supports or drags a layer of water along with it as it spreads out over the ocular surface with each blink . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most telling of such echoes is that between the stallion 's ecstatic animal cry of " " wehee " " as it races off towards the mares ( 4066 ) and Alisons 's gleeful cry of " " tehee " " after making such a fool , in her way , of Absolon ( 3740 ) . |
| 22 | With his portable equipment — weapon , tool bag and hook and line — the weight , as he shuffles out of the ICP , is up to about 70 lb . |
| 23 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 24 | You close the door , take off your glasses because your vision is so distorted , and kick him in the head ; far too softly , then still not hard enough , as he scrabbles round on the floor , one hand at his crotch and the other at his head , making a spitting , wheezing noise . |
| 25 | As long as he keeps out of the washing machine , the vet says Pristine Priskin can expect a long and happy life . |
| 26 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 27 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 28 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |
| 29 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 30 | In the next step of the argument , he then said , well , religion is a transference , and therefore a form of infantilism , so now he seems to be criticizing religion , but if he 's criti criticizing religion by saying it 's an illusion , surely he 's jeopardizing civilization , because the danger , as he points out in the book , if you take religion away from people , you say , look , this is just an illusion , God does n't exist . |