Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 32 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 33 | As he drew her to the canal 's edge a gondola slid from out of the shadows . |
| 34 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |
| 35 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 36 | Somewhere on another plane of existence she knew that he was pacing himself , tuning himself to her slower needs : that his tiny muted cries of painful frustration were evidence of his consideration as he aroused her to an aching , trembling plateau of desire . |
| 37 | In a violent struggle , the policeman found it necessary to unscrew the man 's wooden leg as he wrestled him to the ground , striking him across the head with his truncheon . |
| 38 | They were glad then that all was calm , as he guided them to the harbour they desired ’ ( Psalms 107:29–30 ) . |
| 39 | Round and round , intermittently , through the days it spun , crystallising now and again — before breaking apart once more — into the essence of him , an image , like sudden flashes on a screen , of his diffident smile when they first met , the touch of his hand on her elbow as he guided her to a seat down that summer lane . |
| 40 | They stepped off the kerb and Nicolo slipped his arm around Caroline 's waist as he guided her to the other side of the street . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm normal now , ’ Maggie assured him in a fuzzy voice as he helped her to the bed and lifted her on to it . |
| 42 | His eyes flared over Maggie as he nodded her to a seat . |
| 43 | The rope cut into her stomach as he bound her to the post from just beneath her breasts to below her navel . |