Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] them [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I poked them back in the compost moved , and I retreated hurriedly . |
| 2 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 3 | As soon as they are born , she takes them into her huge jaws where they lie in pouches as she carries them back down the river . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she says to me , as she bundles them out of the front door , ‘ but what can I do ? ’ |
| 5 | In the kitchen the fire was burning low but there was light enough to see the steam rising from the bedclothes as they held them out to air . |
| 6 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 7 | The little girls squealed with delight as he swung them round in a circle , before setting them back gently on to the sand . |
| 8 | Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church . |
| 9 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 10 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |
| 11 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |