Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 2 | She could hear her three- year-old son Rufus laughing as he played on the swings nearby . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 4 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 5 | I could n't help noticing as I walked up the path . |
| 6 | Turning from him , she pulled her blanket up to her shoulders and tried to recline her seat , frowning as she hunted for the button . |
| 7 | Fran glanced back at the heap of cuttings , frowning as she sorted through the pile . |
| 8 | Penry stood at the foot of the stairs , frowning as she plugged in the transistor to listen to Radio Four while she ate . |
| 9 | His eyes were glinting as he thought about the revenge he could have on the Islington people . |
| 10 | A car was coming up the track at high speed , creaking and groaning as it went over the bumps . |
| 11 | She settled the old lady on a stretcher near the door , so that she could see the sunlit complex , and the happy holidaymakers laughing and shouting as they played in the pool , their conversations a mixture of Spanish and English . |
| 12 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 13 | My choice of heating equipment may raise a few eyebrows , ranging as it does from the advanced to the primitive . |
| 14 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |
| 15 | Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard . |
| 16 | I heard a terrible pounding in my ears , my heart thudding like a drum , my stomach lurching as I swung on the end of the rope . |
| 17 | He Was stumbling as he walked across the landing . |
| 18 | On Hazely Peat Moor Bill waited for me , grinning as I slogged through the heather in the heat . |
| 19 | They suffered considerable prejudice and criticism , adding as they did to the already excessive pool of surplus urban labour , though in practice they concentrated in trades , such as tailoring , in which there was relatively little competition . |
| 20 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 21 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 22 | Coinciding as it did with the announcement of major price rises for key consumer products , and with growing concern about rising levels of unemployment , Walesa 's stated ambition to foment " permanent political war " within the Polish system threatened a severe destabilization of the Government 's political platform . |
| 23 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |
| 24 | An ambiguously worded provision , patently lacking adequate means of enforcement , may be too slender a ground on which to anticipate that the courts would sanction a derogation from the ownership rights of the shareholders , lying as they do at the foundation of the legal model of the company . |
| 25 | The Pentland Hills are viewed increasingly as an area with high recreational potential , lying as they do on the very doorstep of Edinburgh . |
| 26 | Lying as it does at the northern limit of the global thermohaline ‘ conveyor belt ’ , changes in this region may ultimately have global consequences . |
| 27 | Her palms were sweating as she stood in the wings in her best green dress waiting for them to come off so that she could get on . |
| 28 | What am I wearing as I pine for the future , |
| 29 | Its colour was of brilliant red on the left hand side , but dispersing as it went to the right ending up a pale green colour . |
| 30 | Soaked , muddy and dejected ; children crying and adults becoming ill-tempered ; people jostling , arguing and complaining as they slipped in the mud . |