Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilot flipped up the door , and Duroc bent to avoid the still slowly circling blades as he stepped down onto the tarmac . |
| 2 | Their feet made loud sucking noises as they tramped over to the burn . |
| 3 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 4 | These two distinctive features are , of course , there for a reason : they allow the bird to capture much more air , which gives it a much better pushing force as it gains height . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | like a slowly mending fracture as I thread the car |
| 7 | The early morning sun was already gathering heat as they left the ship behind , anchored in the now-distant bay below , and she was glad she had chosen to wear the thin jade silk blouse with her white jeans . |
| 8 | It is important to realise that the Gospel writers were not writing history as we understand it . |
| 9 | Chang had produced some seemingly impossible shots too : not just decapitating waves as they curled over and scimitared down , but the underbelly of the wave as well , shot through the turbulence ; the lip from behind and below ; the inside of the barrel taken from the inside looking out . |
| 10 | She realised that he had n't ever responded to her first mildly scolding words as they left the Hamiltons ' . |
| 11 | They leant against the gate , not expecting trouble as they joked between themselves . |
| 12 | They fell to the floor and rolled across the tiles , making little clattering noises as they went . |
| 13 | She scarcely touched it , for it was downhill , but the ball chased past the hole and was still gathering pace as it disappeared off the other side of the green . |
| 14 | She went right round the edge of the roof , carefully distributing flowers as she went . |
| 15 | Connon had enough of himself left to give Jenny a sardonically accusing glance as he left the room with the doctor . |
| 16 | Any curriculum innovation of such far reaching design as we have in Scotland at present will inevitably influence the whole life of the school . |
| 17 | There was no tiredness perceptible on Rune 's blandly enquiring face as he shrugged his wide shoulders into his own jacket . |
| 18 | You can give U.S. audiences as many sick slashings and graphically exploding heads as you like , but they wo n't stand for going away depressed . |
| 19 | You can give U.S. audiences as many sick slashings and graphically exploding heads as you like , but they wo n't stand for going away depressed . |
| 20 | Angus Cameron stood up on the oak stump which Donald used as a chopping-block , held out his hand to each part of the crowd as though drawing them into the circuit of the ceremony , and said , at first quietly , then gaining volume as he felt the truth of his words : ‘ Alexander McLaggan , Mary Stewart — you love each other , and must wed each other , and that is right and good . |
| 21 | But his latest ‘ papal bull ’ — that is what planning guidance notes are , announcing changes and yet stressing tradition as they do — emphasises that ‘ town cramming ’ is to be frowned on . |
| 22 | ‘ Who knows , Diana may well want to move on to bigger and faster racing cars as she gets better and more confident . ’ |
| 23 | We observe their behaviour , of course , but the question whether they are actually experiencing sensations as we suppose is , for us , evidence-transcendent . |
| 24 | Superstar Alan Rickman was in quietly joking mood as he arrived in town to play the Bard 's most quoted hero in a spectacular production of the world 's best known play . |