Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book . |
| 2 | A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship . |
| 3 | Join Axel and Blaze for more gob-smacking action as they again take on the hordes of Mr Big . |
| 4 | RANGERS boss Walter Smith praised his young side as they easily overcame Hibs to set up an important week with forthcoming matches against Club Bruges and Celtic . |
| 5 | I could well imagine her lecturing : she would be wearing a mortar-board and gown perhaps , her head on one side as she usually held it when talking ; and her eyes would be twinkling , as she held forth in that clear , incisive , ‘ educated ’ voice of hers . |
| 6 | The closing words of the subsection as it now stands , providing that ‘ in determining whether accommodation is suitable they shall have regard to Part IX ( slum clearance ) , X ( overcrowding ) and XI ( houses in multiple occupation ) of this Act ’ seem to me to call unmistakably for the exercise by the local authority of a subjective judgment as to what constitutes suitable accommodation . |
| 7 | Laura wondered in a daze as he swiftly divested himself of his own clothing , and then , in the grip of a feverish , shuddering excitement , she responded as his lovemaking became more pressing and urgent . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's Ruby Dobby again , my obsession as you nearly called her , Rain . |
| 9 | My difficulty is as as you 've already heard I 've got no mandate to speak about particular locations or even sectors within Selby District although clearly I do have a mandate as I already have said to come along and say that we feel Selby District is an appropriate location . |
| 10 | Instead of going to the Club as he usually did for lunch , Owen went to Zeinab 's apartment . |
| 11 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 12 | For a moment they were disappointed when Denise realised it was in fact the same car as one already written down . |
| 13 | The modification of the programme had angered Finance Minister Theodor Stolojan and Trade and Industry Minister of State Anton Vatasescu , and on March 20 they had tendered their resignations , complaining that the programme as it now stood was insufficiently radical . |
| 14 | A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep . |
| 15 | When she awoke the next morning , however , she was able to put all such thoughts firmly from her mind as she simply strengthened her resolve to keep her relationship with David Markham purely on a professional basis . |
| 16 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 17 | The debt played on my mind as I half listened to a soprano trying to sing Lulu 's ‘ Shout ’ . |
| 18 | There was no foothold and Maggie gave a cry of fear as she too felt the ground give way beneath them as they slid over the edge towards the lake . |
| 19 | Some have expressed doubt that Stevens ' scale types add up to a theory of measurement or , if they do , whether this approach is a useful one for social research as it currently stands . |
| 20 | She prayed the guttering would hold her weight as she slowly hauled herself up until she could sit astride the peak of the roof . |
| 21 | The Farm represent everything utterly obnoxious about this country , probably not their fault as they never had a decent education , but glorifying football thuggery , provincial mediocrity and small-minded plebbiness only encourages the pettiness of our current society . |
| 22 | But it was also a time of exhaustion and tension as I desperately hurtled between work , father and family ; and of sorrow to see him suffering . |
| 23 | The rule as it now stands is a contradiction . |
| 24 | PLEASE — can we all use this as a selling aid as we desperately need to increase our membership and this just might help us all to find new members as well as encourage existing ones to re-enrol . |
| 25 | PLEASE — can we all use this as a selling aid as we desperately need to increase our membership and this just might help us all to find new members as well as encourage existing ones to re-enrol . |
| 26 | Previous studies have uncertain relevance to the outpatient setting as they either investigated subgroups of patients for example the elderly , or have reported on the findings in hospital inpatients . |
| 27 | Put any group of players together and watch the torture as they painfully suss out where they fit in the ability stakes , and watch the most inept contract into a meek and confused , self-effacing heap . |
| 28 | Meryl Streep is wonderfully comic as an actress who really wants to be a singer , while Shirley Maclaine shows her versatility and talent as she defiantly crashes through ‘ I 'm Still Here ’ . |
| 29 | He felt that Ellice had damaged his cause among the delegation as nobody there appreciated the amount of thought and consultation that had gone into his planning . |
| 30 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |