Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 2 | Polly James , as the matchmaker Frosine , is energetic and endlessly scheming as she attempts to marry off the daughter and her lover Valère , who is masquerading as the Miser 's steward , and the son and Mariane , who is also the object of the father 's desire . |
| 3 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 4 | Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed . |
| 5 | Not only that ; Mordecai was equally definite that he was merely doing as he had been instructed . |
| 6 | Mr Stokle repeatedly broke down sobbing as he relived the events of the attack . |
| 7 | Michael Swinton watched her in silence as he had watched her before , only proffering as he had done once before a handkerchief which he had plainly also used as a paint rag . |
| 8 | We went on listening as she informed us that she had progressed from the easy-peasies such as Keats and Dickens to the Russian heavy brigade . |
| 9 | He was just remounting as she reined in . |
| 10 | Julia looked at David then and was a little surprised to see that he was not laughing as she had expected . |
| 11 | STAINI RACK NUUL Introspection ( sometimes prompted by birthdays ) that one is not living as one determined to live when one was very young ; or , on the other hand , realizing that one is living in a mode decided upon when one was very young and which is now no longer applicable or appropriate |
| 12 | She spun with a cry , already shivering as she saw who it was . |
| 13 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want a leader of the country who walks out on the job when things are not going as he wants . |
| 15 | Dawn was just breaking as she went down to the burn to fetch water . |
| 16 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 17 | People were not behaving as he had ordained they should behave . |
| 18 | For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire . |
| 19 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 20 | At Brigade H.Q the Brigade Major was just leaving as I arrived and there was no sign of Shimi Lovat . |
| 21 | Joe was not smiling as he looked at her . |
| 22 | I intend to keep on going as I have been . |
| 23 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 24 | The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars . |
| 25 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 26 | Even the novelist George Gissing , who was ‘ no friend of the people ’ and who was the most scathing critic of so many aspects of the new popular culture , has his fictional alter ego Henry Ryecroft recalling the pleasures of having been young in London , of the public houses with their ‘ pints of foaming ale ’ and the supper bars with their ‘ sausage and mash ’ , of the theatres where one could ‘ roll and hustle with the throng at the pit-door ’ , and of walking home singing as he went . |
| 27 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 28 | Ruth was still laughing as she closed the bathroom door after her . |
| 29 | ‘ Great , great , ’ replied Ben , still laughing as he jumped down and rejoined his comrade in the jeep . |
| 30 | She was still praying as she emptied the bucket over the logs . |