Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I turn in to the book of Genesis I read there of God coming to Abraham , and saying to Abraham , that Abraham in your family all the nations of the world are gon na be blessed ! |
| 2 | As I walk back to the motel I am relieved to see that there is no light on in the room . |
| 3 | She drums her fingers on the banister as I edge back to the lounge . |
| 4 | As I hang on to the arm-rest with white knuckles , it is clear to me that Brundle has decided not to attempt the corners but to go straight on to the escape road : the turn is impossible now ; it 's just a joke ; he 's trying to scare the shit out of me . |
| 5 | As I burst on to the empty platform , the train starts to pull away . |
| 6 | As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear . |
| 7 | Obvious because it stares you in the face as you walk in to the corrie , and also because you can see that the icicle has n't quite formed despite rumours that it does . |
| 8 | If , when you get on , all your weight is left on the back foot , the back of the board will inevitably sink and you will go for a swim — as you step on to the board move the weight forwards quickly . |
| 9 | Fig 51 When you place the weight over the back foot the tail will submerge , so as you step on to the board lean forwards placing weight through the front arm on to the mast foot . |
| 10 | As you edge up to the line , keep nudging into wind as this will create a small gap downwind . |
| 11 | ‘ But nothing prepares you for the blinding flash of flares and the noise of the thundercrackers as you run on to the field . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop . |
| 13 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 14 | As we move on to the fifteenth century , it is hard to judge the extent or the severity of individual outbreaks of plague or of other diseases , but it is probable that some of the epidemics which occurred in urban centres , where plague was most common , were on a sufficient scale to outweigh any natural increase in the population . |
| 15 | There have been well documented delays to SuperSparc and Sun has apparently built two crystals into its Mbus motherboards so that customers can upgrade their processor modules with higher clock-rate parts as they trickle on to the market , without having to dicker with clock timing and synchronisation . |
| 16 | At that moment ‘ a white light shone forth like a sword ’ from Gandalf , as many people see ‘ the light that shone ’ round Éowyn and Faramir as they come down to the Houses of Healing . |
| 17 | Your users will all execute this as they log in to the VAX , prior to executing their own login command files as specified in SYSUAF.DAT . |