Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 16-year-old youth is in hospital with serious head injuries after an accident as he was on his way to school . |
| 2 | This is the safest position after an accident as it prevents your child 's tongue falling back and obstructing his airway and avoids the risk of choking if he vomits . |
| 3 | A catenary is the locus of the focus of a parabola as it rolls on a straight line . |
| 4 | Mid-way , after a long , hard time , we stopped for a rest — at least , as much of a rest as you can get standing in knee-deep water unable to put down your rucsac . |
| 5 | I just did n't know it was as much of a tribute as it was until I was told … rather abruptly ! |
| 6 | A majority of climbing plants coil right handedly , in the direction of a woodscrew as it is driven into the timber . |
| 7 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 8 | He was shot with six bullets through the window of a hut as he slept . |
| 9 | Pilibossian stares at visitors through powerful round spectacles and walks with the help of a cane as he tells his story . |
| 10 | After being stranded on 99 for 25 minutes , he finally lost both patience and nerve and became the fourth player in the match to be dismissed in sight of a century as he charged down the pitch . |
| 11 | But quite frankly we 'd prefer it if you put up a bit of a fight as we 're a right sadistic bunch . |
| 12 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 13 | She noted the flicker of a smile as he came into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee , but she ignored him , turning her back as she scanned the phone book , desperately hunting for a garage that was reasonably near to this god-forsaken place . |
| 14 | But no , Dumbarton Oaks must also be a mansion or conference centre , and the vision faded , leaving an ember of a smile as he turned to find another drink . |
| 15 | ‘ Not as much of a fool as I tried to be . |
| 16 | POLICE are hunting a mugger who tipped a baby out of a pushchair as it was being pushed by a 64-year-old woman . |
| 17 | I give as good an impression of a drunk as I ever will , but when someone calls my name from the shadows I spin to face the darkness where he stands . |
| 18 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 19 | These cause more of a problem as it is thought that a scheme of arrangement under CA 1985 , s425 can not bind a member who did not have an opportunity to be present or represented at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 20 | Ruth would become more of a problem as she grew older . |
| 21 | Maisie 's conversation was n't quite as much of a surprise as it should have been . |
| 22 | The city was his home , and the Ruger , and the Khan Murjan restaurant , they were as much of a home as he was now at liberty to make for himself . |
| 23 | ‘ You were in enough of a state as it was over doing your course . |
| 24 | The Manport reached my ship 's airlock and clamped on , with puffs of a vapour as it formed its insta-seal around the join . |
| 25 | Oxford were beaten but not broken … and president Matthew Pinsent showed the true mark of a sportsman as he faced defeat … |
| 26 | Groom ( if much more than ten years older than bride ) can look a bit of a Lothario as he escorts her down the aisle . |
| 27 | the designed title of a newspaper as it appears at the top of page one . |
| 28 | It is not as much a matter of generating meanings out of a text as it is a matter of making connections between a particular verbal text and a larger cultural text , which is the matrix or master code that the literary text both depends upon and modifies . |
| 29 | The flora and fauna — the brilliant stooping of hawk or the whistling wing beat of a chough as it sails close to a stance — forms the backdrop and the motivation for our pursuits . |
| 30 | What we can do is attempt to get hold of the rules of the game so that we can make sense of a game as it is played . |