Example sentences of "was [verb] as [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan was frowning as he gingerly touched the plaster . |
| 2 | This arrangement was terminated as it apparently consumed too much valuable wood . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a very tempting offer , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke was saying as she expertly took up her soup without slurping it . |
| 4 | And that was exactly what the radiologist was doing as he slowly ran his sensor over my stomach . |
| 5 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |