Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 2 | The News International ban had some unusual characteristics as we have seen , but the ban and the judgment on it was a significant event in several further respects . |
| 3 | A court should now consider the effect of the provocation on ‘ a person having the power of self-control to be expected of an ordinary person of the sex and age of the accused , but in other respects sharing such of the accused 's characteristics as they think would affect the gravity of the provocation to him ’ . |
| 4 | They sing the songs of Florence Reece , who wrote Which Side Are You On , and of Sarah Ogen Gunning , author of such great songs as I Hate the Capitalist System . |
| 5 | And I doubt that this time around Arab public opinion will separate the action of Western governments so clearly from Western peoples as they seemed able to do after Suez . |
| 6 | The snapping of twigs as someone moved over the thick , soggy mass of fallen leaves . |
| 7 | That was music to their ears as they counted up to twenty-two explosions . |
| 8 | The uncles and my father , jolly and unsuspecting after an evening 's celebrations , blundered in with their sacks of bounty ; the tins and cutlery crashed round their ears as they pushed the door open . |
| 9 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 10 | There 's no strain on the ears as you heap on the gas . |
| 11 | Nor would snatched snaps of us going home in our car that evening have revealed any particular closeness as my passionate tirade about his behaviour fell on deaf or rather sleeping ears as he lay comatose in the passenger seat . |
| 12 | Her sweet words were still echoing in his ears as he came slowly back to reality . |
| 13 | Dazed , overwhelmed with the need and intensity that had sizzled between them since they first met , Rachel did less than resist ; she actively acquiesced , arching her body against his as he slid on to the bed on top of her , and his hoarsely muttered words were bitter-sweet to her ears as he renewed the kiss , his heart thudding above her as his hands began to stroke and explore her passionately responsive body . |
| 14 | Hosanna could see it too , and would prick up his ears as he sat on her lap and focus on Gabriel moving around by the sink or fixing the green curtains at the window . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 16 | The hollow sounds of doors banging and footsteps receding echoed in her ears as she stepped inside the sparsely furnished room . |
| 17 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 18 | The water clashed in her ears as she went down and down . |
| 19 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 20 | She took a deep , unsteady breath , her voice low and uncertain , sounding alien to her own ears as she began her story . |
| 21 | Agnes actually put her hands over her ears as she looked at Jessie sitting close to her on the edge of the bed . |
| 22 | The wind buffeted her ears as she wondered again what had made Luke bring her to this particular place . |
| 23 | Together the landlady and her shocked spouse burst into voluble speech , which beat at Theda 's ears as she fled up the stairs . |
| 24 | The roar of the water coming down the gully drummed at my ears as I inched the Toyota into the bend . |
| 25 | I think the best way to proceed will be for you to produce as many captions as you think fit and we can then select from these during editing . |
| 26 | The educators at home and at school are on their guard , wary of , yet understanding their secrecies and confidences , and in particular the need for such youngsters to take risks as they strike out towards independent adulthood . |
| 27 | The day had turned unseasonably cold and cloudy , and they were glad of their overcoats as they trudged along the windy streets . |
| 28 | His brain seemed to be malfunctioning — his emotions felt like torn rags as he stared at the theatre programme that sat on top of his desk . |
| 29 | And the new consumer awareness made increasing demands on manufacturers as we entered the great and glorious age of the hypermarket and out-of-town superstore . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough 's battle-weary troops were cheered by thousands of fans as they made their way to a civic reception in an open-topped bus . |