Example sentences of "and [v-ing] as [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with an audience which included Dikaiopolis , the main character in Aristophanes ' Acharnians ( see lines 1ff. ) , farting and grumbling as he watched the Spartan ; put a match to the combustible parts of Attica , a speaker might well need to invent cruder techniques . |
| 2 | Quick as a flash , Simon 's laughing was replaced by tutting and headshaking as he dusted the car off , muttering something about hooligans . |
| 3 | He would touch the menacing batons very gingerly , withdrawing his fingers sharply from their hardness and flinching as he imagined the solid clump sound as a baton descended on someone 's skull . |
| 4 | Further , according to this more sophisticated inductivism , creative acts , the most novel and significant of which require genius and involving as they do the psychology of individual scientists , defy logical analysis . |
| 5 | After five minutes they were well away from the school , chasing along the road , laughing and yelling as they pitched the ball back and forth between them . |
| 6 | When they disappeared he turned his attention to a couple of girls who were laughing and giggling as they flung an orange frisbee at each other . |
| 7 | Inside the grand , evil smelling hall , a cassocked figure could be seen panting and swaying as it heaved a paper sack of chicken pellets from off the hall table onto the floor . |