Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 2 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 3 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 4 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 5 | As I put it in the course of the argument , and as I sincerely believe , ‘ good parenting involves giving minors as much rope as they can handle without an unacceptable risk that they will hang themselves . ’ |
| 6 | The vast majority of academic writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports . |
| 7 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |
| 8 | I said as soon as I see it in the paper oh that looks nice . |
| 9 | I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘ |
| 10 | ‘ The vacillating vamp , as you christened her in The Dobblers the other night . ’ |
| 11 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 12 | As she joined him in the petit salon he came towards her with a prettily wrapped package in his hands . |
| 13 | I kept seeing Sergia 's face as she held me in the air looked me over . |
| 14 | Besides having confidence in his artistic and physical abilities , he had a great passion for Nature as she showed herself in the Lake District which not only initiated his venture but maintained it all his life . |
| 15 | All the same , she was n't best pleased to be disturbed by a knock on her door as she wrapped herself in a towelling robe and hid her wet hair in a turban after she stepped out of the shower . |
| 16 | She glanced down at her hand , wondering yet again why the memory of that day should be so insistent tonight , then her lovely face became expressionless as she wrapped herself in the familiar cloak of indifference . |
| 17 | He stirred it silently , as she settled herself in a rocking-chair opposite to him . |
| 18 | Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat . |
| 19 | There was a nice cool breeze wafting up from the river as she settled herself in the shelter of the huge willow tree , at the water 's edge . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 22 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 23 | However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 . |
| 24 | Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year . |
| 25 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |
| 26 | This is going to be great , I said to Taff as we settled ourselves in the trench and set up the Bren gun . |
| 27 | When computers , as we understand them in a modern sense , first came into use in the early nineteen-fifties , they were huge , expensive and unreliable . |
| 28 | This is called dynamic storage allocation because the variables of type PERSON are created as we need them in the program . |
| 29 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 30 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |