Example sentences of "[vb past] as [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry exclaimed as she hastily opened cupboards and showed Ellie where everything was . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's leading you too , ’ Maggie reminded him quietly and his hand came as it often did to tilt her chin imperiously . |
| 3 | He drove as he always drove in those days , well , but far too fast . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ she muttered as she deliberately refused to even consider the implications of his statement , of that strong body being in a wheelchair , diminished , the arrogance dimmed . |
| 5 | In a daze of ever-increasing passion , she barely noticed as he gently removed her clothes , suddenly glad to be free of them and astonished to find herself revelling in his softly whispered murmurs of delight , the fierce gleam in his grey eyes , before first his fingers and then his lips began tracing patterns of fire on her quivering flesh . |
| 6 | He ducked as something heavy whizzed past his head . |
| 7 | ‘ But yes , ’ he replied as he attentively opened the passenger door of his Skoda for her . |
| 8 | The Duchess giggled as he then picked up his guitar and sang Michael Row The Boat Ashore . |
| 9 | She did n't feel pain , only a small burst of pleasure that intensified as he then licked her reddened skin . |
| 10 | She mumbled something and blushed as she hastily climbed into the car . |
| 11 | Mavis blushed as she primly tried to quell the mounting hubbub . |
| 12 | Yes , you are ! ’ he repeated as she fervently shook her head . |
| 13 | She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command . |
| 14 | She carried Wee Joe 's bowl to the kitchen table and they all watched as she gently moved away the bulb fibre . |
| 15 | ‘ Where 's Terry ? ’ he demanded as he expertly spooned instant coffee into numerous cups . |
| 16 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |
| 17 | Fleeting images of Ace masterfully entering her room , of him delightfully forcing his attentions on her slowly died as she finally made herself ready for bed . |
| 18 | She felt as she always did , not fear , but a kind of cold , dead calm , the way you might feel in a car in which the brakes have gone the moment before the crash . |
| 19 | He felt as he always did on the moor , and especially on this spot and on Big Allen , peaceful , without care , without self almost , at one with nature and the past , and as if nothing that happened down there could hurt or vex him any more . |
| 20 | He looked as he always had , with the same lopsided grin . |
| 21 | She had planned , she thought as she warily made her way downstairs the following morning , on solitude . |
| 22 | IT 'S business as usual , Bryan insisted as he finally emerged from his Chelsea home to face the press — but he had n't reckoned with PC — Police Clamper — Nigel Legge . |
| 23 | At the vote on the imposition of sanctions against Iraq , Yemen abstained as it also did from the vote at the Arab League meeting which approved Arab military intervention in Saudi Arabia . |
| 24 | When Endill asked his mother about him she did not say much and never smiled as she normally did . |
| 25 | Fran tried the cupboard , but found only dishes , and smiled as she immediately tried the next one along , reaching for the handle at the same moment as Luke came across to help her . |
| 26 | Lindsey smiled as she also rose to her feet . |
| 27 | He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 29 | But McNab continued as he always had , grave and rather lugubrious , knowing that given time , the " cholera cloud " would move on , too , and that his own view would come to be accepted but this would only happen imperceptibly and not , perhaps , like a cloud passing , but more in the way that sediment settles in a glass of muddy water . |
| 30 | It 's because you waited as no-one else did . |