Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me : ( Thinking that it should all be written down as one is taught ) , ‘ Did you use the pattern given ? ’ |
| 2 | Riven saw a Hearthware go down as one charged and sent him flying . |
| 3 | One such well found when workmen were levelling the ground in Upper Halling was estimated to have been 200 ft deep , and bricked as far down as one could see . |
| 4 | The yachts are slowing down as they approach Fremantle and the effect of the high-pressure zone becomes apparent . |
| 5 | The yachts are slowing down as they approach Fremantle and the effect of the high-pressure zone becomes apparent . |
| 6 | I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen . |
| 7 | Expressionless , their ill-fitting jackboots thumping up and down as they marched , the soldiers approached the lone kilted figure . |
| 8 | Gibbon launched a three-pronged attack from the north , north-west and west , cutting the Indians down as they stumbled from their lodges . |
| 9 | Lin Foh seemed incensed , but kept his voice down as they reached the outside steps of the Coroner 's Court . |
| 10 | A PENSIONER took revenge on two carjackers by ramming their car and then trying to mow one of them down as they fled in terror . |
| 11 | He said some west African governments strictly regulate the mahogany trade so immature trees are not cut down as they are elsewhere . |
| 12 | You should jot questions down as they occur to you during the talk . |
| 13 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 14 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 15 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 16 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |
| 17 | The shares are worthless , and it goes against the grain to see them still quoted , written down as they are . " |
| 18 | Shafts of piercing sunlight slowly push their curious fingers through the dusty waters as far down as they will go . |
| 19 | WORKMEN spoke today of the constant threat they live with day by day : that they will be mercilessly gunned down as they go about earning a living . |
| 20 | Then four Roman Catholic workmen were gunned down as they arrived for work at houses in Castlerock . |
| 21 | Marcus rolled his sleeve down as they walked along . |
| 22 | Large numbers of the birds are believed to have been shot down as they crossed Afghanistan and Pakistan en route to their summer breeding grounds along the River Ob , in eastern Russia . |
| 23 | She was relieved when Nigel had to slow down as they reached the outskirts of Cheltenham . |
| 24 | They said one Pakistani soldier , five of his countrymen and three Americans were injured in the three-hour clash , the worst since the weekend killing of seven Nigerian troops trapped by a mob and then gunned down as they tried to flee . |
| 25 | But members turned the application down as they felt it would cause more late-night trouble . |
| 26 | Hall 's experience will be vital to the Welsh second string but he warns : ‘ We have to try to keep the Aussies down as they wo n't repeat their Swansea mistakes . ’ |
| 27 | you often get down the Tornados coming , whizzing down , below you , you know you 're looking down as they come past |
| 28 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 29 | Ground down as we are — |
| 30 | At our local market I stocked up on walnuts , satsumas and last-minute presents of leather goods , then on Christmas Day the sun blazed down as we tucked into a roast chicken and raised glasses of cheap local champagne . |