Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BRAVE sister died yesterday as she searched desperately for her brother in their blazing home . |
| 2 | Flustered anew , she felt a warm flush of embarrassment flood her face as she searched vainly for an answer . |
| 3 | It was too late to run away then , though , as she fought desperately for composure by mentally going through Cara 's lists of questions , Fabia discovered that she could not remember one of them ! |
| 4 | Despair choked her as she waited tensely for him to join her . |
| 5 | ‘ The one you 've just done in Cheltenham ? ’ she asked , catching Cara 's excitement as she waited expectantly for her to go on with more details . |
| 6 | Not as she thought right for a person 's end , |
| 7 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 8 | So unless we can say , as we said above for knowledge , that you can not claim your belief is justified unless you can tell the difference between cases where such beliefs are true and cases where they are false , it will be impossible to conclude that your true belief here is unjustified . |
| 9 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 10 | In the enormous dining room , even the chandeliers seemed to tremble as they waited breathlessly for the arrival of the Prince of Wales . |
| 11 | Rooks cawed as they foraged hungrily for food but , apart from that , nothing except the eerie , deathly silence of a countryside in the grip of winter . |
| 12 | However , its entry into the European Community , which adopted the air quality management strategy as its common policy in 1980 , caused a radical change in the British approach to air pollution control as it did also for Denmark and Ireland . |
| 13 | He fired , but at once saw that it was a Maryland , banking away as it dived vertically for the sea . |
| 14 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 15 | Spanish operation , Meeke is on the verge of winning Spain 's international rally title for the first time although as he left again for Madrid yesterday , he sounded a word of caution . |
| 16 | His knees ached as he knelt there for hours . |