Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 2 | She seemed more beautiful than ever , and her manner to me was very pleasant , as I took her to the house in London where Miss Havisham had arranged for her to stay . |
| 3 | Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes . |
| 4 | The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door . |
| 5 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 6 | As she followed him to the back of the shop , Sophie remembered with sharp dismay the appointment she had made with Dawn . |
| 7 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , we do open to the public now , as you know , but oh ! the bills , and the staff want paying , ’ she said as she showed us to the door . |
| 9 | We tried to explain the situation as we saw it to the police . |
| 10 | His hands dangled over the sides of the wheelchair as they took him to the salon to meet the Bishop . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 12 | This mixture of fish gets on fine in my tank , except when a week after buying them , the Rainbows spawned which caused chaos as they pushed everything to the other end of the tank . |
| 13 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 14 | As he saw her to the door , he felt in his pockets . |
| 15 | ‘ Afraid of the dark ? ’ he said gently , as he shepherded her to the door . |
| 16 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 17 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 18 | He lifted her in his arms , his mouth still on hers with that fierce hot exploration as he carried her to the bed , slid her down on it , joined her . |
| 19 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 20 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 21 | As he drew her to the canal 's edge a gondola slid from out of the shadows . |
| 22 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 23 | In a violent struggle , the policeman found it necessary to unscrew the man 's wooden leg as he wrestled him to the ground , striking him across the head with his truncheon . |
| 24 | They were glad then that all was calm , as he guided them to the harbour they desired ’ ( Psalms 107:29–30 ) . |
| 25 | They stepped off the kerb and Nicolo slipped his arm around Caroline 's waist as he guided her to the other side of the street . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm normal now , ’ Maggie assured him in a fuzzy voice as he helped her to the bed and lifted her on to it . |
| 27 | The rope cut into her stomach as he bound her to the post from just beneath her breasts to below her navel . |