Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'T IS really nought , ’ she whispered nervously as he reached her and held out his hand . |
| 2 | They drove back to Alnwick in complete silence , broken only as they reached their suite , by Roman . |
| 3 | A screw that goes in as you turn it clockwise is ( arbitrarily ) called right-handed . |
| 4 | ‘ But not me ? ’ she asked dubiously as she held it up against her . |
| 5 | In ready response , his embrace grew masterful , and they clung together as he kissed her face and neck repeatedly , each time catching her lips with more desire and more breathless pleasure . |
| 6 | Before the 17C there were two statues on the bridge , one of the Crucifixion , which Elizabeth of Bohemia ( the Winter Queen ) foolishly insisted should be torn down as she said it looked like a naked bather , and the other of the moderate Hussite king , George Poděbrady . |
| 7 | Her mocking laughter stopped suddenly as she saw his face go deathly white . |
| 8 | Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark . |
| 9 | He neither claimed to know the butler 's name , nor anyone who had known him , but he would always insist the event occurred just as he told it . |
| 10 | A chorus of ‘ Noes ’ greeted the coroner 's demands though Athelstan noticed that the hospitallers looked away as they mumbled their responses . |
| 11 | This announcement gained her a very wry glance and she fumed more as she read his looks . |
| 12 | Her hand trembled slightly as she place it on her father 's arm , but when she heard the traditional strains of music announcing her arrival , and saw Silas looking extremely handsome as he waited at the end of the aisle , her nervousness fled . |
| 13 | Susan had looked up as she felt his glance and had smiled towards him before moving to the group by the window . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't take it , huh ? ’ she teased , then yelped and began laughing helplessly as he yanked her up and rolled to hold her captive beneath him . |
| 15 | And of course with hoods on you ca n't hear the poor soul behind you squeaking indignantly as you work your way up their ankles . |
| 16 | The burning black eyes skimmed over her and one dark brow rose ironically as he noted her trousers and the masculine shirt with rolled-up sleeves , the glorious hair piled ruthlessly on top of her head . |
| 17 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 18 | He let her guide his hand , then tried to pull back as he saw what he had previously not noticed , but she held his hand there firmly , forcing him to look . |
| 19 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 20 | Jonathan was snoring loudly as she detached his hand from her breast and slid from the bed . |
| 21 | Before Joseph could agree or disagree , his brother had mounted up and was laughing loudly as he urged his coolie along the boulevard at top speed . |
| 22 | She winced then as she stubbed her right foot on the side of the tin bathtub . |
| 23 | His eyes narrowed speculatively as they watched her in the mirror . |
| 24 | ‘ Every Brownie must stay exactly as I put her — on the ground . |
| 25 | So ( for all her personal extravagance ) the principessa was regarded exactly as she regarded herself , just decently well off . |
| 26 | I ran to see if I could help the traveller , who was swearing furiously as he pulled himself free of his horse . |
| 27 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 28 | BBCBASIC(Z80) will appear exactly as you left it . |
| 29 | He let his hand wander a little , and got it petulantly pushed away as she heaved herself out of the clutches of the chesterfield 's upholstery , and sat up on the edge of it . |
| 30 | She just toppled over as I touched her . |