Example sentences of "[verb] as [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and hum As Time Goes By too loud |
| 2 | He and Athelstan rose as Gaunt swept into the room . |
| 3 | In the March 1990 elections to the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies , many Communist Party members , who had been nominated as candidates refused to be part of the official parliamentary fraction of the CPSU . |
| 4 | As these appear as themes threaded through the discussion it may be useful to identify them here , although I shall return to them at the end of the chapter . |
| 5 | It has also been suggested that the Bond albedo was lower within the last few hundred years and that the atmosphere is still cooling as Jupiter adjusts to its new higher albedo . |
| 6 | But its modern image as the ultimate safe stockbroker belt has been shattered as firms go to the wall and homes are repossessed . |
| 7 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 8 | A woman with a toy poodle grumbled as Oliver trod on it . |
| 9 | SHOPPERS CHEER AS MINERS TAKE TO STREET AGAINST JOBS AXE |
| 10 | Morley winced as Kelly appeared at her front door , her shoulder strapped up , a graze down the side of her face and two blackened eyes . |
| 11 | Strike threat dropped as workers wait for Albion decision |
| 12 | As early as 1705 there were five of these with well-defined functions each handling relations with a specific group of countries , and new departments were added as time went on ( for example a Ceremonial Department which evolved in the reign of Catherine II ) . |
| 13 | Suddenly , her thoughts materialised as David came into the room , bringing a cold blast of air from the outer hallway . |
| 14 | It took 11 firemen almost half an hour to bring the blaze under control and bingo players had to be evacuated as smoke seeped into the auditorium of the Mecca Social Club , next door . |
| 15 | Neighbours were evacuated as smoke billowed from the semi-detached bungalow in Didcot , Oxon , late on Christmas eve . |
| 16 | More than 300 customers and 50 staff had to be evacuated as police searched for a bomb . |
| 17 | I rather think — ’ She stopped as Joanna rushed into the room . |
| 18 | I fled as twins died in barn fire |
| 19 | The question of who had ownership of guns was now forgotten as Gilbert blundered to the basement stairs , closely followed by Rohmer and Duvall . |
| 20 | This seems an odd reversal of the usual rule that Arctic animals are whiter , but otherwise they behaved as fulmar do in Shetland , appearing to spend much of their time flying and gliding over the sea . |
| 21 | She felt the springs in the bed shift as Kate sat beside her . |
| 22 | Rose exclaimed as Ellie walked into the kitchen . |
| 23 | What counts as reason stands in the dock accused , on the one hand , of being mere appearance ( the emperor never had any clothes syndrome ) and , on the other , of representing vested interests of the academic community and the wider society . |
| 24 | These would have contained garden-like areas for growing vegetables , herbs for flavouring , dyes and medicines , fruit trees and space for hives — honey being an important commodity and mentioned as goods rendered from some estates . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're missing the views , ’ Otley scolded as people ran from one side of the carriage to the other in order to catch everything . |
| 26 | The incident occurred as Johnson arrived without his accreditation . |
| 27 | All numerically computed trajectories eventually spiral into C+ or C but some spend a considerable time wandering near the strange invariant set ( which was produced in the bifurcation that occurred as r passed through its homoclinic value ) before doing so . |
| 28 | But it was during the war that real expansion occurred as branches turned with renewed vigour to improve child and maternity welfare . |
| 29 | This is argued on the basis of assumptions about the behaviour of ‘ bureaucrats ’ who are unable to operate by making profits from the services they provide as entrepreneurs do in the private sector . |
| 30 | BRENTFORD boss Phil Holder was left fuming as Tranmere came from two goals behind to claim a thrilling victory . |