Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't even aware of having spoken the words aloud until she saw his face tauten with some undefinable emotion as he held her from him . |
| 2 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 3 | He was dressed in a wide-sleeved ceremonial gown of dark silk and a soft hat embroidered with coloured threads partly hid his face from Lan and her brothers as they followed him through the doorway , walking barefoot between their father and mother . |
| 4 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 5 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 6 | Then he pushed everything from his mind as she touched him between his legs . |
| 7 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 8 | I lay very still , the hair rising on the back of my neck as something nudged me through the canvas . |
| 9 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 10 | Behind her she could hear the sudden roar of the car engine as he pulled away from the kerb , then the steady throb as he slowed it alongside her . |
| 11 | Nathan was seated in the opposite corner , one hand easy on the wheel as he helped himself from the plate . |
| 12 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 13 | Ace unfastened her safety harness and clutched the sides of her shaking couch as she pulled herself into a sitting position . |
| 14 | Later Fernando grazed the moisture from her brow with his lips as he gathered her into his arms once again . |
| 15 | For her flaming tresses — burning like Isabel 's on her son 's sweet lips as he drew them through his fingers , drowned in them … |
| 16 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 17 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 18 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 19 | But he had to release his hold on her mouth as he dragged her up the stairs , so she screamed at Agnes and her mother , who were already on the stairhead , ‘ He 's killed him ! |
| 20 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 21 | This is a good activity for small group project work as it lends itself to the pooling of information and sharing different elements of the task . |
| 22 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 23 | He slipped his gloves into his pockets as he followed her over the threshold and she shut the door . |
| 24 | His hands dangled over the sides of the wheelchair as they took him to the salon to meet the Bishop . |
| 25 | She got up , gazing at him ; for this seemed not the crazy figure of recent days , but Jake as she remembered him from years ago , her own father . |
| 26 | He sighed with wry regret as he took her into his arms , tipping her face up to his . |
| 27 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 28 | His eyes flared over Maggie as he nodded her to a seat . |
| 29 | The carpet sucked the soles of our shoes as we followed him through a drunken , grasping audience towards a small dressing room to the left of the stage , upon which Tanya was enjoying bananas for dessert . |
| 30 | Gina gave an awkward laugh as she detached herself from his hold . |