Example sentences of "as [pos pn] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She noticed something which at first seemed familiar and natural and then , as its significance dawned on her , sinister . |
| 32 | The work on political discourses around welfare , housing , unemployment and other issues of local concern articulated by Labour as well as its opponents remains to be done . |
| 33 | Suddenly she heard the sound of an approaching car on the road running alongside the promenade , and as its headlights shone on them , she tried to pull away , turning her head so that his kisses fell on to the side of her face and down on to her shoulder . |
| 34 | The Times was certainly not panicking , as its editorials rattled off the press each after another , priming the fuse of Parliament 's deliberations and heralding the garotters as something that signalled ‘ the failure of sentimental legislation ’ . |
| 35 | Its efforts to ingest the last scattered parings of modern existence seemed half-hearted , as its voice rose to a crescendo as if to bewail its incapability and incompetence . |
| 36 | Most important of all , however , in creating a greater understanding of and attachment to the Protestant message was the regular use of the Elizabethan Prayer Book , which appears to have experienced a gradual increase in popularity as its ceremonies grew in familiarity over the course of the queen 's reign . |
| 37 | Conventional and gradualist as its recommendations tended to be , the Royal Commission can take credit for laying the foundations of the practice of bringing in a senior officer from another force to investigate complaints against the police . |
| 38 | A similar working group was appointed in Scotland under the chairmanship of 1 V Paterson but as its recommendations differed from its English counterpart only in matters of detail we need not treat it separately ( Keating and Midwinter 1983:119 — 23 ) . |
| 39 | Before Tet , Vietnam could be a place where an unpleasant war was being fought , some might even know that 525,000 American troops were stationed in the country , that the United States was convulsed by the issue , but as the NLF penetrated the US embassy in Saigon , and as its troops had to be beaten out , one by one , millions of people , and hundreds of thousands of western radicals were taken by the idea that the emperor might be dangerous , was dangerous , but had no clothes . |
| 40 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 41 | She shivered a little as its touch ran over her . |
| 42 | There was a tiny splash as its mouth lifted above the surface , then it sank down again , merging with the darkness . |
| 43 | COMPAQ TURNS IN A MAGNIFICENT QUARTER AS ITS SALES SOAR TO $1,600m |
| 44 | The wet grass glittered and near-by a nut-tree sparkled iridescent , winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind . |
| 45 | As an encore , water miraculously expands , just on the point of freezing ; in fact , as its temperature falls from 4°C to 0°C it expands by 10 per cent . |
| 46 | But there was an arresting fascination in his voice , like the movement of wind and light on a meadow , and as its rhythm entered into his hearers the whole burrow became silent . |
| 47 | But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded . |
| 48 | And as long as its strategy conforms to one or some of these , the task of explanation is relatively well defined . |
| 49 | He did n't want tea , he wanted to lie down , to escape from the pulsing pain as its waves crashed through him . |
| 50 | Her agonised cry of fluid release caused him to cry out with her as her climax broke like a fever , shuddering her whole body as if an electric current had rushed through it , shock-wave after shock-wave of erotic delight . |
| 51 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 52 | As her friend ran to her side , she pointed up the tree . |
| 53 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 54 | She stayed there unseen as her parents chatted to the driver , family friend Keith Morgan . |
| 55 | And as her voice ended on another high scream the door opened and the Mother Superior came in . |
| 56 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 57 | Even so , a little frown of apprehension clouded her face as her thoughts strayed to the hours ahead . |
| 58 | She frowned as her thoughts shifted to John . |
| 59 | Her reverie was interrupted by the click of the front door being opened and closed , as her daughter stepped into the room . |
| 60 | Ashi Nadirpur jumped as her daughter appeared at the bedroom door . |