Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even the hasty relieving of my weary bladder as we scrambled out of the car was enough to offset that wonderful feeling of rejuvenation . |
| 2 | The male bicolour damselfish flexes the muscles attached to its swim bladder as it patrols its patch of coral reef . |
| 3 | It was only a short distance and Paula spotted the Colombi as they turned a corner . |
| 4 | Now nobody can make him fight , but he can not leave his new homeland as he has no passport . |
| 5 | ‘ The car , the one the girl was in , if it was a Zil as she says , then it was seen by a policeman , ’ Myeloski told Duncan . |
| 6 | It is at times like this when people begin to lose the true principles of religion as they become too involved and so wars begin . |
| 7 | She felt towards her religion as she imagined some women felt towards their dreary , loveless marriages : something trying , but inescapable ; cluttered with apparently futile chores , yet from which there was no question of escaping . |
| 8 | What can be deduced from this is that religion as he understands it involves belief in an ordered moral government of the whole universe and in the fact that religious and ethical ideals should inform all our actions . |
| 9 | Holmes scored twice , the second another solo effort , while Shane Tibbetts and Gander both showed a turn of speed as they increase the try tally . |
| 10 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 11 | Burkett observed that money could even buy speed as they swung the precisely crafted oars through the beautifully modelled oarlocks . |
| 12 | Then Julius reduced speed as they approached another small village . |
| 13 | Like a ride in a big dipper , he felt the floor pushing up at him , gathering speed as they climbed a wave . |
| 14 | Likely contributing factors are that people fail to recognise , and to compensate for insidious deterioration of vision , hearing and decision speed as they age . |
| 15 | Then start slowly , and build up your speed as you go along . |
| 16 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 17 | Aim at mimicking the language helper at the same speed as he speaks . |
| 18 | Yanto had hardly bothered to reduce speed as he had turned sharp left by Stone school into the narrow lane which would take them back to Berkeley . |
| 19 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 20 | No doubt the Substitute read the newspapers at the same breakneck speed as he did everything else . |
| 21 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 22 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 23 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 24 | So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe . |
| 25 | An and the next day of action as I said before is on tropical rainforests erm . |
| 26 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 27 | And this is where the second proposal is , that , there is again confusion between having a joint pol erm , a , erm , a joint policy group at chief officer level , and J C P T , and that again those should as it were combined , but that the arrangement could be s could be erm , kept as small and tight to encourage effective action as you move into joint commissioning , and that is bringing your budget alongside that of the Health Authority , and would be the best way to get erm , the best leverage on services that you can across that divide . |
| 28 | Britain 's javelin maestro confesses he has no idea when he will be back in action as he struggles with a stubborn injury to his throwing shoulder . |
| 29 | What seemed a daunting quantity of hard male muscle clenched into action as he sat up and swung his long legs to the ground . |
| 30 | She paused and I could hear her brain cells creaking into action as she reached out a hand covered in enough costume jewellery to make a decent knuckle-duster . |