Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun sg] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would begin to thread our way up the railway 's magical valley with sonorous rumbling as we negotiated bridge after bridge over the River Onny . |
| 2 | ‘ Our inspiration is totally with rural life as it can be lived , ’ Laura wrote some years later . |
| 3 | Mr Reagan was punched , jostled and showered with splintered glass as he was giving a speech in Las Vegas when the protester broke through a security cordon to seize the microphone , writes Charles Laurence in New York . |
| 4 | Thirty pairs of eyes stared with unwavering concentration as I dipped my hand into the all-too-familiar breakfast of slightly sour rice and salted fish . |
| 5 | Julie pointed out with devastating logic as she corrected the last of the school-books piled up on the large oak refectory table in front of her . |
| 6 | ‘ Way you go , Patty , ’ he said softly , and the dog was off , hurling herself along the embankment , all paws and flying ears , after a rabbit who had been sitting in a patch of sun but disappeared with contemptuous ease as she came close . |
| 7 | Frederica drank a lot of wine and said nothing , but watched everyone in turn , charged with unsatisfied curiosity as they lay and lazily tossed ideas between them . |
| 8 | The accident provided councillors on Orkney with fresh ammunition as they prepare to put their case for stricter controls on shipping in the area to Lord Donaldson , who is expected to visit Orkney next week as part of his inquiry following the Braer disaster . |
| 9 | Patients who joined the study between 1981 and 1985 tended to have been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid as it had become widely available at that time and was considered to be the oral bile acid treatment of choice for gall stone dissolution . |
| 10 | He knew it , she thought , the moment he entered the room and sought his stepfather 's face , although he greeted Thorfinn , clearly , with light affection as he always did , and Thorfinn , distanced now from the moment 's irritation , showed no desire to hector him . |
| 11 | It follows that in complex animals in particular , the rules for learning the rules can be as much to do with social interaction as anything else . |
| 12 | One particular Easter , a beautiful day , I remember an overwhelming fear filling me with absolute terror as we stood outside the ticket office after returning from a journey . |
| 13 | There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities . |
| 14 | Constance felt let down but , more , she was overcome with indignant self-pity as she slowly cycled back along the drive that linked the Hall to the main road . |
| 15 | Brown went on to complete her personal double triumph in the 200m individual medley with consummate ease as she completed the event in 2.23.87 with Gail Hamilton of Ards a massive five-and-a-half seconds behind . |
| 16 | Gene McGurk , Frank McEneaney , Bernie Murray , Loughman all played with typical ferocity as they strove to orchestrate a smash and grab act following Cavan 's early dominance . |
| 17 | ‘ You will , ’ Luke asserted , the prophecy blending a breathtaking arrogance with pure threat as he reached for her . |
| 18 | It was n't really surprising therefore that she was wound tighter than a spring with suppressed energy as she waited for Ace to return . |
| 19 | ‘ It would serve you right if you had broken the damn ankle , ’ Travis declared with suppressed violence as he knelt down . |
| 20 | He had become an Untouchable , Trent thought with sudden bitterness as he glanced up to catch a look , almost of horror , on Mariana 's face . |
| 21 | Lee picked up the vibes and looked with wide-eyed apprehension as I held my breath and waited . |
| 22 | " All right , " I said with false breeziness as I left . |
| 23 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 24 | Philip implicitly dismisses the value of his own reflections on the ugliness of modern London with off-hand self-ironizing comments which imply that he too is a product of the intellectual dissipation he criticizes : ‘ Life , I said with startling originality as I stepped out of the bus in my mackintosh , is like that ’ ( 307 ) . |
| 25 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 26 | She was shaking when his mouth finally drifted away from hers , her heart beating with increased rapidity as he smiled down into her flushed face , gazing intently at her dark-pupilled eyes with their luminous circles of grey iris . |
| 27 | He was specialising , with terrible irony as it turns out , in the treatment of women who had suffered sexual abuse and those who were HIV positive . |
| 28 | She was excited despite herself , her eyes darkening , staring through black lashes , her mouth parting with unconscious invitation as she moistened her lips and lowered her hot gaze to his chest . |
| 29 | Bukharin rejected Preobrazhensky 's whole conception of primitive socialist accumulation , and with good cause as we shall see . |
| 30 | The clinging nature of her garments was borne in on her with horrifying clarity as her startled gaze caught the back end of his grin . |