Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both O'Flaherty and Sherington were severely wounded as they got into the warehouse , but with grim determination they staggered clear , leaving a few equally determined Germans in an inner room of the building . |
| 2 | This outstanding man had been seconded from the Royal Welch Fusiliers to serve as Consul at Adana in Turkey , where he behaved with courage and firmness during the Armenian massacres , rescuing several hundred people before he himself was wounded as he rode round the town . |
| 3 | She heard her name called from below , the sound distorted as it echoed from the depths . |
| 4 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |
| 5 | On Oct. 27 the founder and leader of the Spanish Labour Party ( PTE ) Santiago Carrillo , 75 , declared his party dissolved as it integrated with the Socialist Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 6 | He was interviewed as you know by the clerk , by our groundsman , and a councillor . |
| 7 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 8 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 9 | I think that will be crystallized or become clarified as we get into the discussion , district by district . |
| 10 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 11 | William Winning ( 21 ) was attacked as he walked through the Edenbeg estate in the early hours of February 25 last year . |
| 12 | Though they understood his fury , many villagers protested as he drove through the streets with the almost-naked bodies waving grotesquely . |
| 13 | Holidaymaker Jane Turner , from Nottingham , said : ‘ You could see windows being smashed as we drove past the side streets . |
| 14 | With a few minor amendments ( such as the deletion of paragraph numbers and cross-references to the relevant numbered paragraphs in earlier chapters ) they are presented as they appeared in the final report . |
| 15 | Once upon time , a Royal Banker of elevated rank noticed as he drove to the City on the morning of the Queen Mum 's birthday that the flags were not flying on the most relevant of our buildings . |
| 16 | The floor tiles were cold but she hardly noticed as she tiptoed to the door and looked into the kitchen . |
| 17 | Still , no damage was done as he went through the turn in 36 . |
| 18 | In fact , that was only done as I walked through the door . |
| 19 | I felt hotter than I need have done as I thought of the man who fed the dough on long , long shovels into that blazing hole . |
| 20 | Nicolo 's mouth twisted as he stopped before the platform and looked up at her . |
| 21 | Soon , Mr Peter Fechter , aged 18 , the first of nearly 200 East Germans killed in the last 28 years while trying to escape , was shot as he climbed over the Wall near Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 22 | Another was shot as he fired into the house , and now lay wounded with his smoking pistol in his hand . |
| 23 | Amongst the victims of the urban campaign was Col. Saturnino Dumlao , a senior intelligent agent , who was ambushed as he drove through the southern Manila suburb of Paranaque on June 11 , 1990 . |
| 24 | They left in the utility a short time after darkness had fallen , and although little was said as they drove along the narrow , rough country road , Lucy felt that the silences between them were companionable . |
| 25 | And then he wondered why it was that he had n't heard that satisfying little clunk the coin usually made as it dropped inside the machine . |
| 26 | At the end of our period John of Salisbury wrote his Historia pontificalis , with its centre in Rome and the curia — a chronicle of events seen as they impinged on the eternal city ; and he talks much less of pilgrims , much more of diplomatic visits and of litigants . |
| 27 | A mediaeval pack-horse bridge over the Cherwell River can be seen as you pass through the village . |
| 28 | Ian McCloud , of Unicef , celebrated as he saw off the first UN convoy of food in weeks . |
| 29 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 30 | Residents in nearby villages had watched as it plummeted to the ground , frighteningly near their homes . |