Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so on , as I get her to the bedroom and changed again and into bed . |
| 2 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 3 | She seemed more beautiful than ever , and her manner to me was very pleasant , as I took her to the house in London where Miss Havisham had arranged for her to stay . |
| 4 | Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes . |
| 5 | The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door . |
| 6 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 7 | So it 's not the six thousand figure , that that 's not really relevant as I see it to the debate about the forecast because that was simply a partial opening the bypass . |
| 8 | As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 9 | As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me . |
| 10 | You can have been had by the whole of Fighter Command as far as I 'm concerned ; just as long as you add me to the list . ’ |
| 11 | As she followed him to the back of the shop , Sophie remembered with sharp dismay the appointment she had made with Dawn . |
| 12 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , we do open to the public now , as you know , but oh ! the bills , and the staff want paying , ’ she said as she showed us to the door . |
| 14 | ‘ Hallo , ’ said the Englishman as she helped herself to a mug of courtesy coffee at the desk . |
| 15 | We tried to explain the situation as we saw it to the police . |
| 16 | ‘ As soon as we got him to a doctor — which took some time — it was discovered that Major Maxim must have held the ammonia under our man 's nose while pouring some odourless spirit — quite possibly strong vodka — onto the blindfold in order to produce the stinging sensation . ’ |
| 17 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 18 | The Newmarket trainer runs Top Class in the Longchamp spectacular and the faithful backing Brittain will expect to be laughing all the way to the bank as they help themselves to the generous 40-1 on offer . |
| 19 | His hands dangled over the sides of the wheelchair as they took him to the salon to meet the Bishop . |
| 20 | As they contribute nothing to the signal , it would seem to be advantageous to remove them from the fountain . |
| 21 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 22 | But Araminta is given a curious grace of movement and a gift for surprising which , as they owe nothing to the intellect , must have been excessively difficult to achieve . |
| 23 | This mixture of fish gets on fine in my tank , except when a week after buying them , the Rainbows spawned which caused chaos as they pushed everything to the other end of the tank . |
| 24 | This is a good activity for small group project work as it lends itself to the pooling of information and sharing different elements of the task . |
| 25 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 26 | As he saw her to the door , he felt in his pockets . |
| 27 | ‘ Afraid of the dark ? ’ he said gently , as he shepherded her to the door . |
| 28 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 29 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 30 | He lifted her in his arms , his mouth still on hers with that fierce hot exploration as he carried her to the bed , slid her down on it , joined her . |