Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yanto had hardly bothered to reduce speed as he had turned sharp left by Stone school into the narrow lane which would take them back to Berkeley . |
| 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 | They 'd drawn the odd inquisitive glance as they 'd entered the dining-room of the Shelbourne , but Mahoney had been convinced that was because of the way Donna looked . |
| 4 | The turbulence will be all the greater because of the confusions of the underlying thinking as it has emerged from the political process . |
| 5 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 6 | This is his sixteenth over , two for seventeen with nine maidens so far , bowling from the far end , the nursery end with a cluster of fielders , you 've got a silly point and a short leg and a slip and he 's got er , at the moment four men on the leg side as he 's had most of the time and five on the off , and now a slight adjustment , we 're gon na have an extra one around the batsman . |
| 7 | In response the Syrian-based Seljuk dynasty fought back , especially through the exploits of the Kurd Salah al-Din ( Saladdin as he became known in the West ) who himself took Egypt establishing his own Ayyubid dynasty in 1171 . |
| 8 | The Greens were present in over 500 wards , compared with 206 wards in 1988 , and the Liberal Democrats were able to field almost as many candidates as they had done previously . |
| 9 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 10 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 11 | For a boss , in fact , he was a very human man , who had hardly tried to hide the tears behind his eyes as he had stepped into the Mercedes earlier . |
| 12 | One remembered again the anger in his eyes as he had faced her across the table . |
| 13 | But she knew she had seen that covetous look in his eyes as he had watched her . |
| 14 | Sarella recalled the smouldering look of desire in his eyes as he 'd kissed her . |
| 15 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 16 | It was as disgusting a concoction as I have seen and not particularly cheap . |
| 17 | The objective in 1993 is to make our budget , which is achievable providing we stop scoring own goals as we have done in th Northern Area of Wimpey Asphalt and the Eastern Area of Wimpey Hobbs over the last two years . |
| 18 | Tom … had n't got into his car as she had expected him to do . |
| 19 | This was attacked by Labour as dismantling the housing welfare programme as it had existed since 1945 , or perhaps since the Addison Act of 1919 . |
| 20 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 21 | The thought was distasteful but it continued to play on her mind as she got dressed in a pair of jeans and a flowered silk shirt . |
| 22 | I subsequently choked on my tea as I 'd heard it was 250,000 . |
| 23 | This was as crushing a demonstration as we have seen from Senna and McLaren-Honda . |
| 24 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 25 | The history of polarity reversals of the Earth 's magnetic field recorded in this newly generated crust as it cooled indicated that , once formed , it moved away from ridges towards oceanic trenches . |
| 26 | One young girl who had stood giggling at the hapless Mark for more than ten minutes was told that she could go back to her department as she 'd waited long enough . |
| 27 | We are in exile now and we have no money , " he would tell people who came to Morocco and asked to be paid for past services to the crown , It was not quite true , but certainly no longer disposed of the sort of funds as he had done when he was in power . |
| 28 | I have not used this method for the sample in the photograph as I have used King Cole Anti-Tickle wool which cables easily without the extra yarn . |
| 29 | Throughout the seventeenth century , and far into the eighteenth , the issue of precedence continued to arouse strong feeling and generate disputes as it had done in earlier generations . |
| 30 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |