Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His clothes steaming as he bent to light a cigarette from a blazing splinter on the open hearth . |
| 2 | Some students with pre-RAF flight training can skip a level and go directly to the Tucano , leaping as they do so into a world far distant from general aviation . |
| 3 | Already , as Luke raised her hand to his mouth , response was quivering to life deep down in the heart of her femininity , flickering and then leaping as she felt the sensual brush of his lips . |
| 4 | This trait is not restricted to one variety of style , for we can observe it both in passage [ 3 ] ( " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ; remorseless twins they are for striding through their human forests , notching as they go " ) ; and in passage [ 7 ] ( " as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity " ) . |
| 5 | Representing as they have done the interests of a high-seas trading nation ( Britain still exports more per head of population than does Japan ) , British post-war leaders of all political persuasions , from Nye Bevan to Margaret Thatcher , have largely based their economic policies on the need to expand trade . |
| 6 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 7 | This last point is worth amplifying as it does affect the poetry . |
| 8 | She could see a couple of the other models standing near the buffet table , laughing as they accepted glasses of champagne from attentive gentlemen . |
| 9 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 10 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 11 | A woman was singing popular songs , and the holidaymakers were drinking and laughing as they ate their steaks . |
| 12 | They 're talking and laughing as they work . |
| 13 | He and Tommy , drunk , laughing as they offer the body a glass of cider . |
| 14 | You are Scottish ? ’ and each time she touches my kilt with her hand , throwing her head back and laughing as we spin around the dance floor . |
| 15 | We could hear him laughing as we closed the garden door . |
| 16 | The men were in great form , however , singing and shouting ; and you could not help laughing as you watched them remove certain attractive articles from the stalls of the street vendors . |
| 17 | She was laughing as she went back to the garden and Wickham . |
| 18 | Julia looked at David then and was a little surprised to see that he was not laughing as she had expected . |
| 19 | ‘ If you wanted that you should n't have sent me somewhere tame , ’ Maggie pointed out , nearly laughing as she said the word . |
| 20 | Quite out of the blue her sense of the ridiculous erupted ; the parallel he 'd drawn appealed to her , and she found herself actually laughing as she handed him one of the bowls . |
| 21 | Christina followed her eagerly , laughing as she showed her friend how to body-surf on the smaller waves , and then how to dive and tread water waiting for a really big wave . |
| 22 | Ellen was laughing as she tried to stop the gunk that still spewed from the cylinder . |
| 23 | Ruth was still laughing as she closed the bathroom door after her . |
| 24 | Anxious as she was about the neighbours , she could n't help laughing as she hurried downstairs . |
| 25 | He was laughing as he said this , but Cassie was not entirely sure that she found the idea particularly funny . |
| 26 | Images flickered across the disordered screen of her mind — Rune provocatively , dominantly angry at their first meeting ; Rune , eyes shuttered , playing ‘ her ’ song ; Rune , mouth tender , eyes laughing as he had watched the children playing at the funfair in Tivoli ; Rune , seeking her out at her hotel , deliberately drawing her into his life ; Rune , his blond head bent , handling her damaged foot with such tenderness ; Rune … |
| 27 | She could hear her three- year-old son Rufus laughing as he played on the swings nearby . |
| 28 | They circled above him menacingly , the female laughing as he struggled to regain the line of his flight . |
| 29 | They made a good pair , both dark-haired , Simone animated and bubbly , laughing as he related amusing anecdotes about his travels . |
| 30 | With a muffled shriek , she pushed at his weight with her hands and knees , half laughing as he squashed her flat again and controlled her flailing arms with a glitter of laughter in his eyes . |