Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found Royston much as we had left it . |
| 2 | The marquis 's strength made Topaz light-headed as they clung together , his desire a worthy match for hers . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , we 'll do Maureen first as she has to rush off . |
| 4 | Stalin particularly resented the Anglo-American failure to open a ‘ Second Front ’ in western Europe before June 1944 , suspecting this was a deliberate attempt to bleed Russia white as she fought the bulk of the German army . |
| 5 | I remember a December night : I heard the church clock strike nine as I went down into the garden — it was warm enough to walk . |
| 6 | On the other hand , many commentators believed that it would be disastrous for the Republicans to nominate Reagan encumbered as he supposedly was by three disadvantages : his lack of experience of national office , his age and , most importantly , his identification with the extreme right of his party . |
| 7 | It does not develop into the passionate circling en l ’ air that occurs when the Tutor swings Natalia round as she rests on his knee before they ultimately turn to face each other and embrace . |
| 8 | ( Opposite below ) The first of the Class 47s — or Brush Type 4s as they were known when D1500 appeared in 1962 — still hard at work rom Gateshead depot in 1987. here No 47401 , as it is now numbered and carrying the name North Eastern which it both received and lost during the 1980s , nears Greenfield on a Trans-Pennine service , the 17.03 Liverpool to Newcastle on 19 June 1987 . |
| 9 | SHOPPERS went sales crazy yesterday , spending £1.5 billion as they snapped up everything in sight . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's great that you arrived here , Jaq , ’ enthused Zephro Carnelian as he folded away the hoods . |
| 11 | In both these cases , should the child appear before a children 's hearing again , then , reading section 4 as it stands , no questions can be asked and no answers received on the earlier offence or the previous hearing or any review hearings or the disposal . |
| 12 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |