Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] [verb] [verb] " 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 | So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ALL SMILES from Gazza as he prepares to make a sensational come-back — in England colours in Spain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She shot him a suspicious glance as she began combing his hair . |
| 7 | The turbulence will be all the greater because of the confusions of the underlying thinking as it has emerged from the political process . |
| 8 | And so the issue the discussion has focused on , from where I 'm sitting , seems to have focused on is , you know can one afford to let loose a strategic policy and could such a policy be written in a way that it would work for inward investment attraction without being a a Trojan horse as you know letting in a lot of other nasty things . |
| 9 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 10 | There Capirossi had Gresini , Casanova and Doriano Romboni on his side as they fought to repulse the attack of title rival Hans Spaan . |
| 11 | TRADITION comes down firmly on Clan na Gael 's side as they prepare to face Maghery in the Armagh senior championship final at the Athletic Grounds today ( 3.30 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Difficult to tell , ’ said Alex , her head on one side as she appeared to give the matter some consideration . |
| 13 | I reached his side as he finished scanning the list of names on the last page . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Boris , a quiet , humorous Scot from Aberdeen , is 30 now and he knows that time is not on his side as he tries to improve his world ranking of 35 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Charlie laughed for the first time since he had left Whitechapel and strolled over to a youth far smaller than himself who was rubbing his hands between his legs as he tried to keep warm . |
| 18 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And there was also an opportunity for Aberdeen and the surrounding region to look to its future as it prepared to host the next Offshore Europe in 1995 . |
| 22 | There were tears in the girls ' eyes as they tried to smile back . |
| 23 | It was n't the wind that brought tears to my eyes as I turned to walk along the cliff path . |
| 24 | Tears filled her eyes as she described seeing him looking down on her . |
| 25 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was her soft , drawling voice or the fact that , no matter how interesting the topic of your conversation , you would inevitably see her smothering amiable yawns as you talked ; you would see the muscles of her jaw tighten and the tears start from her eyes as she tried to repress them . |
| 27 | Pursing her lips thoughtfully , she half closed her eyes as she tried to visualise how it might look . |
| 28 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One remembered again the anger in his eyes as he had faced her across the table . |