Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By my judgement as the amendment reflects is that it is n't necessary but if it were I would have no hesitation s whatsoever in increasing the level of taxation to pay for what needs to be paid for . |
| 2 | I became very proud of my wounds as the pain grew less , and I enjoyed flashing the bandage around to gain sympathy , until one night , after a couple of months , the nail fell off without warning . |
| 3 | Some of it got into the car and irritated my eyes : I had to take a hand off the steering wheel to rub them and it was almost wrenched out of my grasp as the car lurched into a hole in the road . |
| 4 | I had to have my share as the two lads ate theirs and watched ‘ Neighbours ’ . |
| 5 | It certainly keeps me on my toes as the children alternate between bouts of great industry and water fights ! |
| 6 | I held my breath as the announcer introduced the players for the first match . |
| 7 | For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down . |
| 8 | My life as the wife of a veterinary surgeon is surrounded by animals and dominated by the telephone . |
| 9 | I had come to the top of a long hill , so steep that the wheelbarrow was almost wrenched from my hands as the descent began . |
| 10 | ‘ My thoughts as the ball went through the posts ? |
| 11 | The line must have tangled , because the next thing I knew , or rather felt , was a searing pain in my thumb as the hook dug in . |
| 12 | The Maggot , who refused to wear a seat belt , shoved his throttles forward , and I felt the sweat trickling down my belly as the brakes were released and the small plane thundered down the rough surface . |
| 13 | Sister saw my wince as the policeman removed himself . |
| 14 | At times I felt like cutting my throat as the depression conjured up by the story spilled over into the auditorium . |
| 15 | Mark 's wife Sharon spoke of her horror as the jumbo crashed . |
| 16 | Its form was settled in the fifteenth century , and well before 1485 there was no longer any doubt that the House of Commons was an integral part of Parliament , as necessary to its existence as the Lords : no statute was valid without its consent . |
| 17 | Rowing Red Alligator over its hurdle as The Banshee falls at the first . |
| 18 | Last autumn President Bush said that what was wrong with the Soviet Union was not so much its ideology as the fact that it had had an ideology at all . |
| 19 | A dolphin dives with its lungs filled , and copes with the crushing effects of pressure at these depths by collapsing its chest as the water pressure compresses the air in its lungs . |
| 20 | The warm evening air brushed her face and tugged at her hair as the car sped south . |
| 21 | She raked it through her hair as the voice came again . |
| 22 | Duncan looked at the men in the back , incongruous in their camouflage as the vehicle hurtled on down the country lane . |
| 23 | Yorkshire took Sachin Tendulkar to its heart as the young star of India struck a mighty blow against racism in cricket |
| 24 | Jezrael felt her glands pour rivers of adrenalin into her blood as the emptiness of space swallowed the flames , smothered the roaring lungs of the explosion . |
| 25 | The pupils at the £3,465-a-term school , boys and girls aged 16 and over , are to be interviewed by police at their homes as the school has broken up for Easter . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it was clear that he was still not fully back to his old self because the tough links courses took their toll as the round wore on . |
| 27 | Then she emptied her mind as the sweat poured . |
| 28 | Mrs Balanchine frowned and concentrated , trying to hold the tortuous grammar in her mind as the question was formed letter-by-letter . |
| 29 | What was a nun doing , hurrying in the opposite direction in the rush hour , flashed into her mind as the nun spoke . |
| 30 | She closed her eyes and began to pray , but everything went from her mind as the plane struck . |