Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elaine scrambled to recover her bikini and fell over , laughing as the relentless waves pulled her under the water , time and time again . |
| 2 | She snatched Buster from his play and we went back into the house where she held him close to her face , laughing as the big cat purred and arched himself ecstatically against her cheek . |
| 3 | Jackie hopped up and down , squeaking as the feeling came back into his arms . |
| 4 | She saw the sands cooling as the temperature fell . |
| 5 | We followed the programme devised centrally , which proved to be a bonus when companies wishing to link into more than one school could identify readily what was happening as the process was common to each school . |
| 6 | There has been a campaign by Customs & Excise , intensifying as the year has gone on , with valuable assistance from the accountancy profession , Sitpro ( Simpler Trade Procedures Board ) and similar bodies , to ensure that businesses buying or selling goods within the European market know what the changes to the collection of VAT and related statistics will entail . |
| 7 | And it 's guaranteed to be moist and appetising as the fruit is soaked overnight in port and fresh lemon juice to make it extra plump and tasty . |
| 8 | And before the nausea anaesthetised me , did I feel nostalgia , did I feel regret , did I feel the sense of something ending as the island slipped below the edge of the sea ? |
| 9 | Perhaps she had rooms full of glass cases upstairs with people stuck to sheets of cardboard , the pins through the spines quivering as the limbs twitched . |
| 10 | A story ballet demands that the circumstances and events occurring as the plot unfolds will be seen to affect the lives and personalities of the characters involved and that dance and gesture will express moods ' emotions and action . |
| 11 | Check that you use the correct chemical for descaling if your system is more than 12 years old , because of the risk of leaks occurring as the scale is dissolved . |
| 12 | According to his model , sentence production consists of transforming an initial message-level representation ( roughly speaking , a non-linguistic representation of the basic idea the speaker wishes to convey ) into a final articulatory representation ( a pattern of movements of the speech musculature occurring as the constructed sentence is actually spoken aloud ) . |
| 13 | An advertisement or notice board is not soliciting as the presence of the prostitute is required ( Burge v Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1962 ] 1 All ER 666 and Weiss v Monahan [ 1962 ] 1 All ER 6–64 ) . |
| 14 | She saw her own blood spurting as the lamb 's must have spurted out . |
| 15 | Then , taking a gulp of air , she leaned into the car and pressed his eyelids shut with the forefinger and thumb of her right hand , shuddering as the icy coldness of his flesh communicated itself to her . |
| 16 | She hovered for a brief time over the trunk of the tree , tears streaming from her eyes , shuddering as the axes continued to cut into the wood , shaking her head from side to side . |
| 17 | Tipping down her throat a large measure of neat bourbon , she gasped , leaning weakly against the wall and shuddering as the fiery liquid scorched its way down into her stomach . |
| 18 | The should of slow labouring footsteps could be heard moving along the first-floor landing as the boy threw himself into the kitchen and slammed the door behind him . |
| 19 | The B–17 pilot then skilfully brought the bomber down in front of the cameras , which recorded the dramatic crash landing as the right wing slammed down on the two right props and engines . |
| 20 | John felt the hull of the yacht vibrating as the tanker approached . |
| 21 | She got up , grabbing her own plate and that of Melissa , not noticing as the spaghetti slid dangerously near to the edge of the plate . |
| 22 | Sometimes I could hear the chain clanking as the red bitch moved around , running in one direction , and then , as the chain pulled her up , turning about . |
| 23 | I stayed in the darkness vomiting as the ship veered wildly through the troughs of high waves . |
| 24 | While most of the people rested in the river meadow , shivering as the layers of fog brimmed round them , Cameron and a few strong runners made for the Tummel above the confluence , crossed it , and found the people of Atholl and Tulliemet overflowing the howff at Widow Duff 's , supping broth , chewing mutton , throwing ribs to the dogs . |
| 25 | She waited , shutting her eyes and shivering as the light waned . |
| 26 | Now , on her knees , she sobbed weakly , shivering as the rain fell unrelentingly down . |
| 27 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 28 | And they all rose and kissed his hand ; great was the joy in the Palace , it was done according as the Cid had said . |
| 29 | ( For an integer a and a prime r not dividing a , define unc to be 1 or -1 according as the congruence unc ( mod r ) can be solved for x or not . |
| 30 | This sub-committee had nothing else to do and the members carried out their task well : the delegates were all comfortable ! ( 6 ) Noting how the committee is proceeding is made more or less difficult according as the Chairman is less or more efficient . |