Example sentences of "[verb] as [pers pn] [vb past] [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 | Julia looked at David then and was a little surprised to see that he was not laughing as she had expected . |
| 3 | Ellen was laughing as she tried to stop the gunk that still spewed from the cylinder . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | They circled above him menacingly , the female laughing as he struggled to regain the line of his flight . |
| 6 | In the next 20 years the NHS did not escape criticism from academic Fabians but it never reached the volume and intensity of the criticism which , for example , social security and income maintenance attracted as they appeared to retreat further and further away from the principles of the Beveridge Report . |
| 7 | ‘ Invalid and invalid as in having no effect , ’ Fernando grumbled as he went to pour her a drink from a jug on the table . |
| 8 | I did n't know till the next we er till the weekend and he made me know as I 'd swore . |
| 9 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 10 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 11 | In the country 's fifth air disaster in four months , the China Southern Airlines plane crashed as it approached to land at the city of Guilin . |
| 12 | ’ He was wandering now , his voice had dropped as he struggled to keep his thread and a restlessness at the back of the gathering broke out in shouts of ‘ Speak up ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm fit to tackle a live child again , ’ he joked as they prepared to eat . |
| 14 | Donna rubbed both hands across her face , her body quivering as she began to regain some warmth , some feeling in her extremities . |
| 15 | And she was initially awed by the plots which the girls concocted as they sought to shame a particular teacher or fellow pupil , or simply to escape at impermissible hours from the school grounds . |
| 16 | Requesting the sales girl to make up the bill , he 'd proceeded to lower his dark head , his arms closing about her like steel bands as he 'd possessed Laura 's lips in a long , slow and devastating kiss . |
| 17 | Its eight-man crew also perished as they strived to rescue the Santampa 's crew . |
| 18 | All humour had vanished as he turned to face her , dropping her key on to the stand beside the door , his features stamped with hostility . |
| 19 | She stopped as he began to shake with suppressed laughter , then added indignantly , ‘ I 'm serious , Robert . |
| 20 | ‘ Better get moving , ’ he thought He stopped as he turned Had he imagined it , no , he was sure something had flashed in the moonlight It must have been a good quarter of a mile away , towards the middle of the estuary . |
| 21 | Yousefi was caught as he tried to cash a cheque in London . |
| 22 | Dorothy opened the oven to see how the dinner was coming along , and her voice was muffled as she tried to avoid the steam from the casserole she was peeking at . |
| 23 | Thunder rolled as he turned to ask Mariana where the President kept his Land-Rover . |
| 24 | Substituting t-butyl hydroperoxide for alloxan in a similar experiment , Clark found as he had hoped , that parasitaemia again dropped radically . |
| 25 | Peter Rainford was unpleasantly attentive but his wife was quite happy with Felipe , and Maggie 's heart sank as they arranged to go round the Alhambra with them the next day . |
| 26 | Her heart sank as she tried to negotiate her way between the truth and a lie . |
| 27 | The threat of the soldiers was momentarily forgotten as she struggled to keep her footing and prevent the animal from bolting . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing of the kind , ’ she said , the coffee forgotten as she turned to face her . |
| 29 | The police were attacked as they tried to break up a crowd of about 10,000 people gathered in a field at Sidlow Bridge , near Reigate , Surrey . |
| 30 | A POLICEMAN responding to a 999 call was attacked as he tried to make an arrest . |