Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They arrived in separate motorcades and barely exchanged a glance as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 7 | He gave the pair a friendly glance as they walked towards the riverside . |
| 8 | He shot her an enigmatic glance as she stepped on board the powerful speed-launch , scene of the dramatic rescue that first night . |
| 9 | Such variation reflects as much on the Authority 's style and the quality of its thinking as it does on the heads , and there is a clear need for much greater dialogue between the two levels . |
| 10 | She was lifting her skirt as she hurried to him , and he could see her ankles . |
| 11 | Another time she seemed to have nothing on under a grass skirt as she danced on a mirrored floor . |
| 12 | The hair bare bunch : Christy Turlington proves too sexy for her wig as she sashays for Jean Paul Gaultier |
| 13 | The snapping of twigs as someone moved over the thick , soggy mass of fallen leaves . |
| 14 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 15 | Furthermore , while linguistics has certainly been useful to the study of rhythm as it has to all aspects of poetry , there has been an unfortunate tendency to suppose that the language of verse is itself rhythmic . |
| 16 | Southern Memories won in the style of a well handicapped horse as he cruised to a three-length win from Special One at Windsor last week . |
| 17 | Sharpe instinctively reined in his horse as he stared at the small cluster of buildings that marked the crossroads called Quatre Bras . |
| 18 | There 's no strain on the ears as you heap on the gas . |
| 19 | Hosanna could see it too , and would prick up his ears as he sat on her lap and focus on Gabriel moving around by the sink or fixing the green curtains at the window . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 21 | The hollow sounds of doors banging and footsteps receding echoed in her ears as she stepped inside the sparsely furnished room . |
| 22 | Agnes actually put her hands over her ears as she looked at Jessie sitting close to her on the edge of the bed . |
| 23 | Together the landlady and her shocked spouse burst into voluble speech , which beat at Theda 's ears as she fled up the stairs . |
| 24 | You can feel the same oppressive sense of place at Culloden , where great numbers of Scots were massacred , and I felt a similar sense of sadness and grief as I walked through Glencoe where the Macdonalds were treacherously murdered by the Campbells . |
| 25 | It scraped to one side as they slid to the carpeted floor . |
| 26 | The modest target posed no problems for the bubbling Pontblyddyn side as they stormed to a winning 67–3 in the 20th over , opener Mark Hughes ( 31 ) and Mark Williams ( 16 ) ensuring that shell-shocked Colwyn missed out on a zone semi-final . |
| 27 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 28 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 29 | I was able to have the pick of excellent crews practically at the dock side as they arrived in the UK . |
| 30 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |