Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's it 's on the economic front that regeneration has the highest priority in Leeds and not on the housing front , as I as I 've previously described . |
| 2 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 3 | Theda 's eyes met the scorching flame in his as she rose shakily to her feet to face him . |
| 4 | Let me love you as I did before . |
| 5 | Er the brothers the brothers and the as you as you said there , and the . |
| 6 | On 2 May 1839 Prince wrote to Gould in Australia warning him of Swainson 's impending visit : ‘ Mr. Yarrell has just called and requested me to tell you that Mr Swainson is going to Australia whether to collect or to settle is not known at present but he considered it of importance that you should know it as quickly as possible not that either he or I think it can in any way affect you as you have so good a start and his wonted and well known irregularity of publication will surely militate against him . ’ |
| 7 | We stayed at the Hotel Abendruh where there were both , along with a sunbed which massages you as you lie there . |
| 8 | Unlike guns , they are unlikely to hit you as you run away . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll be back , ’ he tells you as he sweats away on the treadmill or the mountain bike . |
| 10 | I can picture her now sitting at the harmonium in her black lace gown , me standing beside her as we sang together . |
| 11 | He did n't touch her as they walked casually up the winding road to the high point . |
| 12 | His blue eyes studied her as they leant together against the french windows in the sunlight . |
| 13 | They swam then , and Damian made love to her in the hot sea , stripping her as they floated together , wrapping their bodies around each other in unreasoning desire , kissing saltily as their hoarse cries filled the air and they nearly sank like stones as Damian went rigid with pleasure , his fingers biting into her nude body in the warm water . |
| 14 | Two years later , when the scandal peaked and middle-aged mobs shouted abuse at her as she sped away in large cars , it seemed less outraged morality they were proclaiming than outrage at being left behind in the 1950s . |
| 15 | Then suddenly everyone was no longer concerned for her as she lay there , but for another woman ; a tiny fierce woman whose fault it had all not been and Lisa 's gigantic , striding power melted into softness , soppy for the baby . |
| 16 | She dropped the keys into her bag and straightened up , a small cry escaping her as she walked straight into a large solid body . |
| 17 | A remote , cool air enveloped her that caused more than one man to think twice about approaching her as she walked slowly down the length of the hall . |
| 18 | For all the week that Timothy Gedge had been tormenting them it had n't once occurred to her , which surprised her as she prayed now . |
| 19 | She brushed past Penry , eluding the hand he put out to detain her as she ran outside to the car , deaf to his entreaties as she jumped in the car and started it up with a violent rev of the engine . |
| 20 | Suddenly she was grasped from behind and the sky swam all around her as she fell heavily to the ground , landing with Fernando half across her . |
| 21 | ‘ What in the devil 's name is that ? ’ he demanded , following her as she crossed quickly to the gate and moved out into the grounds . |
| 22 | Despair choked her as she waited tensely for him to join her . |
| 23 | He watched her as she went past at a walk , the black Labrador and he both gazing wistfully , their breath steaming in the cold February morning . |
| 24 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 25 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 26 | The man she had spellbound stayed behind ; her enchantments had been pitted against an energetic opponent , who exulted when she left , cursing her as she trudged away pushing a small cart with her possessions . |
| 27 | Beginning to spin himself , he reached for her as she whirled slowly under his crotch . |
| 28 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 29 | So Caterina the next day ran into Tommaso on an errand as if by accident and muttered to him ; she was twisting her limbs and quite red with fear , but he followed her as she ducked awkwardly into the church and knelt in front of the Madonna of the Spasm in the votive chapel . |
| 30 | Martin watched her as she moved quietly around the room . |