Example sentences of "with [noun sg] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Lambert want rigid with horror as it looked as if the fire would fall on top of them ; but they drifted clear . |
| 2 | ‘ That is the way forward , ’ remarked the Colonel with enthusiasm as they left the Pavilion . |
| 3 | She paused , her beautiful eyes alight with enthusiasm as she leaned forward . |
| 4 | The Girls regarded this one with loathing as it shows them with heads and legs all at different angles . |
| 5 | The trouble with ANDF as he sees it is it recreates a problem of the past by adding an enormous level of inefficiency in its intermediate compiler layer . |
| 6 | Wilson , his enemies suggested , had been as reckless with money as he had been in organising strikes which brought no advantage to his members . |
| 7 | I note how their shoulders go stiff with tension as they pick out neckties . |
| 8 | She sat down at the desk , pulling a sheaf of notes towards her , her whole body trembling with tension as she felt Luke Calder watching her . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're so lovely … for years I 've dreamed of you lying beside me like this ! ’ he breathed thickly , his powerful body shaking with tension as he tried to control his mounting passion . |
| 10 | Blanche expected him to mutter with disbelief as she had when she had digested the story . |
| 11 | His chest is suddenly stained with blood as something pulses frantically beneath his thin shirt . |
| 12 | The great lip-smacking moon flailed their flanks with silver as they tumbled in ecstasy . |
| 13 | Austrian hat manufacturers wept with emotion as they offered untold wealth for a single specimen . |
| 14 | There he stood before the official inquiry in his crisp , bemedalled marine uniform , his voice breaking with emotion as he lectured the assembled politicians on what was in the nation 's interests as if he himself had just invented patriotism . |
| 15 | Colin Parry 's voice frequently choked with emotion as he addressed more than 400 mourners packed into St Mary 's Church , Great Sankey , near Warrington , Cheshire , for football-mad Tim 's funeral service . |
| 16 | WARRINGTON General Hospital consultant Barry Taylor shook with emotion as he described the savage injuries of the bomb wounded . |
| 17 | Mr Taylor , of Grantham , said Liam had gradually improved , and his voice choked with emotion as he described how the next afternoon his son had opened his eyes and reached for his teddy bear . |
| 18 | The Andokides Painter surely ‘ thought ’ in black-figure ; Epiktetos thinks in red-figure ; and one of the differences is a renewed concern with drawing as we understand it , something hardly possible in black-figure . |
| 19 | We crowed with pleasure as we rushed up the remaining feet to the top and , in the last dregs of daylight , hastened back across the lonely moor to the car , Mullion , and a well earned pint . |
| 20 | His green eyes gleamed with pleasure as they started towards her . |
| 21 | She twinkled with pleasure as I wove a windmill-tilting , dragon-vanquishing saga of my quest for the frothy and elusive grail . |
| 22 | He moaned slightly with pleasure as she kissed him again . |
| 23 | Damian said unsteadily , and bent his head to kiss her mouth with slow , sensual desire , and that was how they made love , their bodies moving as slowly but surely towards that ecstasy as that initial kiss did , until Rachel , this time , was breathless and incoherent , delirious with pleasure as she reached climax through his strokes and expertise and unbelievably exciting lovemaking . |
| 24 | Her throat closed with pleasure as she looked out . |
| 25 | He beamed with pleasure as she walked in . |
| 26 | Rune 's eyes gleamed with pleasure as she detected an added warmth in the timbre of his voice . |
| 27 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 28 | He had at last accepted her as a friend and began whining and wriggling with pleasure as she approached . |
| 29 | But it was n't until she was almost driven out of her mind , delirious and sobbing with pleasure as she moaned his name , writhing helplessly beneath his intimate touch , that he moved to cover her body with his own . |
| 30 | Lindsey 's eyes danced with pleasure as she emerged finally , clutching a bag of the large tubers which were sold to tourists . |