Example sentences of "as [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attractive smartly dressed blonde in her forties stepped out of the doorway as my taxi drew to the kerb and she climbed in beside me . |
| 2 | A car driver indicates that he is turning right but goes straight on with disastrous consequences , as my brother discovered to his cost recently ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And as long as its strategy conforms to one or some of these , the task of explanation is relatively well defined . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As her friend ran to her side , she pointed up the tree . |
| 7 | It betrayed nothing personal about its owner — unless he was an emotionless aesthete — and somehow she doubted that to be the case as her psyche responded to the presence of a simmering powerhouse within the lean , muscled frame before her . |
| 8 | Shiona smiled shakily , as her shock turned to bewilderment . |
| 9 | The moon swelled , filling out as her belly ceased to , and then dwindled again . |
| 10 | Her detachment from her own party as well as her nation added to her strength and sense of invincibility . |
| 11 | And that today Jean still resorts to cutting herself , reflects her basic lack of self-esteem , as well as her need to try to ‘ reach ’ someone who will be able to give her the help she so desperately needs . |
| 12 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 13 | Satisfied , she sat as her maid began to untwist the lead strips from her hair and tease the ringlets into perfection . |
| 14 | Janine seemed to get up some enthusiasm as her mother-in-law chatted to her , telling her about her own difficult marriage , and how it was hard when one was young and unsure of oneself . |
| 15 | Leonora clenched her teeth for an instant as her body yielded to his with a fleeting moment of pain , then she relaxed as they lay still for an instant in the very eye of the storm . |
| 16 | Anne laughed but she blushed too as her mind turned to John . |
| 17 | The accepted explanation was that the capitalist system of production was based on selfishness since only some in the community could prosper , as their prosperity had to be at the expense of others . |
| 18 | With the withdrawal of ARPs some people will doubtless be forced back into residential care as the value of the fixed transitional payment is eroded by rising costs and inflation or as their condition leads to further special requirements . |
| 19 | Consequently they attend for.treatment late , reluctantly , often unwillingly , and are more likely to be treated in locked or secure settings as their fear leads to aggression , violence and a cycle of anxiety and rejection by staff . |
| 20 | She watched as his gaze fell to her mouth , focused on the soft red fullness , and felt the breath still within her . |
| 21 | In a dramatic final episode , Roy 's devotees will watch their hero vainly wrestle the controls as his helicopter plunges to the ground and explodes in a ball of flames . |
| 22 | ‘ He wo n't be here yet , my dear , ’ said old Mr Clare , as his wife went to the front door for the tenth time . |
| 23 | It was a cold and damp winter , but he recovered slowly and indeed seemed cheerful ; he sat beside the open coal fire in the drawingroom and would sometimes sing music-hall ditties as his wife ministered to him — " coddling " , he used to call it . |
| 24 | For the novelist works to one side — hence parajournalist — of the writer busy with magazine polemics in Time and Epoch , just as his novel exists to one side — parajournalism — of the double murder in the newspapers and of scary sciencefictionish forewarnings about microbes . |
| 25 | ‘ Why not ? ’ he queried as his mouth moved to the cord in her neck , destroying what little command over her senses she had left . |
| 26 | When he moved lower , she tangled her fingers in the thick blackness of his hair , shivering as his mouth moved to the intimate core of her sexuality , parting the curled Titian triangle with his tongue . |
| 27 | We talked a little more , while Terry and Tom prepared themselves for the inevitable angry reaction from the guards and Brian lay down under an extra blanket as his body came to terms with the shock of the beating . |
| 28 | He stood and looked at them sway , feeling a unity with them as his body swayed to the same light breeze . |
| 29 | Nervously her hand went up to adjust her glasses — then she remembered that she was n't wearing glasses , and as his glance moved to her loose-flowing and luxuriant shining chestnut hair she felt decidedly vulnerable . |
| 30 | CHELSEA 's new manager , Dave Webb , yesterday discovered the magnitude of his task as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League to make it 13 games without a win . |