Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was able to have the pick of excellent crews practically at the dock side as they arrived in the UK . |
| 2 | Emily walked into the sitting room , let the coat fall to the floor and sat down on the couch , crossing her legs as she had in the wine bar , and watching him coolly as he stood there in the doorway . |
| 3 | ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence . |
| 4 | The koko served us tea as we sat in the middle of the boma after the cattle had gone . |
| 5 | Fierce Eyes and his mother used nets to catch them , stamping on their heads as they struggled in the loose , confining space . |
| 6 | There was an instant relieving of the tension as everyone joined in the laughter . |
| 7 | She began to feel a little differently , though when less than an hour later they entered Ven 's hotel suite and as she turned , about to give him her polite but none the less sincere thanks as they halted in the middle of the room , Ven looked down at her and got in first with , ‘ Are you tired ? ’ |
| 8 | There was a plop as it landed in the water , then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down . |
| 9 | Control of the workforce was therefore formal and impersonal , often reflecting the tone of class relationships as they existed in the wider rural society . |
| 10 | This camera is being used to crack down on a crime explosion that 's made victims of people like 91 year old Beatrice Wakefield , burgled of her savings as she sat in the garden . |
| 11 | We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) . |
| 12 | The singer caught their quick look of recognition as they crossed in the doorway . |
| 13 | Highly suspicious of Japan 's motives , the students referred to their militarism and ability to bring China to its knees as they did in the 1930s . |
| 14 | Unfortunately we did n't have room to include the complete rules for war machines and chariots as they appear in the Warhammer rulebook , but you will find a summary for them at the end of the War Machines section . |
| 15 | Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual . |
| 16 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 17 | And an ideal little workshop for anybody doing work as they did in the early days , most of the components of a motor car had to made . |
| 18 | Even safe and necessary medicines sell for up to six times as much in poor countries as they do in the country of manufacture . |
| 19 | Water oozed through the sodden cardboard inner soles , hastily fitted over the holes in my cheap plastic shoes as I stood in the rain outside the courtroom . |
| 20 | Thickets of fawn papery stems , tender green as they unfurl in the spring , have a specialized ecology all of their own . |
| 21 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 22 | The tuba can play the whole passage as it stands in the original ( in the bottom octave , of course ) . |
| 23 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 24 | The concept of honour as it appears in the adventure stones of the late nineteenth century was at least partly an artificial code belonging to the ruling or leisure classes , requiring a dedicated loyalty towards women , family honour and masculine comradeship which owed little to common sense or practicality . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've told you before that you ca n't leave without seeing Doctor , ’ said the Sister , arms akimbo as she stood in the middle of the ward . |
| 26 | The 68-metre former oceanographic vessel was accorded a rousing welcome as it arrived in the northern Taiwan port of Keelung on May 13 to take on provisions and broadcasting equipment . |
| 27 | This chapter sets out the debate surrounding pluralism as it emerged in the 1950s and 1960s in the context of the community power debate in the United States . |
| 28 | It looks as good inside your home as it does in the garden . |
| 29 | But Hambleton district council claims the hotel , in Darlington Road , is unsuitable as a nursing home as it lies in the heart of Northallerton 's industrial estate . |
| 30 | Er there and er it 's therefore er the best use we can make of it , not specifically for any particular school in any particular circumstances as I read in the , that the , that the Tories proposals have been in , on , on , on the issue . |