Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 2 | He ran to his car , calling back to Aunt Nellie as he started up the engine : ‘ Ring up the A.A. box at Begwith and tell them to try and stop her . ’ |
| 3 | Heir of uncertainty in the shadow of Raine Old problems face the new Earl Spencer as he takes over Althorp from his shrewd stepmother |
| 4 | Earlier Romantic interests in dream , haunting and death were revivified by Odilon Redon 's lithographs and drawings and transposed into a mawkish fascination with human decollation and disembodiment ( a prescient subject of much Surrealist interest later ) , witness perhaps of his desire to escape from the strictures of the body where only material limitation and disease existed — the concerns of eschatology , sexuality and mysticism certainly haunted Redon as they do so much Symbolist thought . |
| 5 | Martin Clarke , who will serve only half the term , was three times over the legal limit when he struck David Adams as he cycled home from the supermarket on 21 December . |
| 6 | But though we might have to plough through the politics and suffer with Dennis as we do so , the book still ultimately gets the accept right and takes us out promiscuously to Korea and the Cape , Russia , America , Israel and Morocco . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you a Catholic ? ’ he asked Donna as she brought out the drinks . |
| 8 | Juliet chatted to Donna as she flushed out the catheter . |
| 9 | From floor to ceiling , along its entire length , tens of thousands of expressionless faces stared at Bernice as she hurried away from the circular chamber . |
| 10 | ‘ A curious game , ’ said Antony as they drove away from the ground . |
| 11 | But I like him , thought Antony as they got out of the car . |
| 12 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 13 | The swallows flitted round Marie as she ran down the bank . |
| 14 | They entered all three parts of the competition , but were rejected by Angell and Pownall as they went well beyond the site boundaries and the rooms were awkwardly shaped . |
| 15 | Some kind of historical simularity was coming to an end as Bernice entered the crowded refectory , passing Miles Engado and Piper O'Rourke as she did so . |
| 16 | ‘ We must be nearly in range by now , ’ I said to Jean as I turned back to channel 20 . |
| 17 | She was feeling thoroughly angry , but she hid it from Jean as she went on , ‘ Ling has shown us where the cakes , sandwiches and asparagus rolls are in the deep-freeze , and we know exactly when to defrost them in the microwave ovens — so why should we worry about Doreen ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He wants you up the flange-plates , ’ said Tam as they sat down . |
| 19 | They do their best to make even our delightful local trattoria in Mondano sound like a Berni Inn in Basingstoke as they call raucously for prawn cocktail and steak and chips , having to settle with obvious disgust for the pure poetry of Signora Sparanti 's risotto con funghi . |
| 20 | We learn more about Tamburlaine as we get deeper into the play , and Marlowe carefully disguises the fact that there is more to Tamburlaine than meets the eye . |
| 21 | Christina wanted to remind him that he had only helped with the backing and that the real work had been done by Stephen and her , but she kept quiet and instead watched Jean Reece-Carlton as she turned away from a gloating Robert in disgust , muttering something under her breath . |
| 22 | In future you 'll stick to Salwar Kamiz as you have always done . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That was a super dinner , ’ Leith thanked Travis as she put down her coffee-cup , ready to go . |
| 24 | We go for a walk up into the hills in the afternoon ; me puffing and panting and coughing after Andy as he strides quickly , easily up the rutted forest tracks . |
| 25 | In the view , Ronald Colman strangled Shelley Winters , quoting from Othello as he did so , killing with a kiss . |
| 26 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 27 | Moving on to sport now and Oxford United face Reading at the Manor tonight in the first round , second leg of the Rumbelows League Cup , the of a one-goal advantage from the first leg at Elm Park ; covering the match this evening is Mickey Inotta who saw Oxford 's bubble burst on Saturday as they went down 3-1 to Nott 's County . |
| 28 | There was a reporter and a photographer from the Financial Times waiting to interview Branson as he touched down . |
| 29 | It did n't like it at first , and moved and beat against the sides of the plastic and the neck of the can while I held it and sweated , listening to the hum of the insects and the rustling of the grass , staring at Blyth as he lay there still and silent , his dark hair ruffled now and again by the breeze . |
| 30 | She glared down at Johnny as he lay there , obstinately refusing lo look at her . |