Example sentences of "[vb -s] as [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carmichael frowns as I tell him what happened on the Island yesterday . |
| 2 | Fergie frowns as she discovers she 's more than skin and bone |
| 3 | His voice drops as he asks it . |
| 4 | From then on the film is a partially credible but increasingly fantastic documentation of the relationship between the two which develops as she teaches him to read during her spare time . |
| 5 | It is certainly not enough to face reality bluntly if the future develops as I describe it . |
| 6 | She shouts as I enter her . |
| 7 | ‘ Whether Dickens himself shall turn out to be the hero of his own life , ’ Ackroyd wonders as he begins his story , echoing Pip in Great Expectations , ‘ or whether that station will be held by others , these pages must show . ’ |
| 8 | I am in a little lane that runs across the front of the hillside , with a kind of broken roadway underfoot which disintegrates as I follow it into gravel studded with outcrops of manhole . |
| 9 | ‘ I do nt think we should compromise here , ’ he says as he lures her out of her bra , and the narrator repeats the theme as his camera pans round to give us an eyeful of the picture man getting down to nipple level . |
| 10 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 11 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 12 | WWF say they 're delighted to work with Pampers as we continue our programme of environmental improvements . |
| 13 | Stanley is obviously worried when Blanche arrives as he wonders what will happen to his sex life and his relationship with Stella : |
| 14 | The thin paper in my hand flutters as I drop it onto the bed . |
| 15 | Councillor I I had to admit that I 'm slightly lost in that one A now ends as I understand it with the roman numeral three that was proposed in the labour amendment . |
| 16 | Racing toward it , the excitement grows as one sees it is not a shadow , not a glacial cobble , but a meteorite — a piece of rock from another planet ! |
| 17 | Rodrigo De Triano also figures in the entries and will take his chance if the ground stays as he likes it . |
| 18 | The cot side rattles as I lower it . |
| 19 | Shadrach — can he be this pleased to see me ? — smiles as he cups his hands to indicate the tiny creature I was previously . |
| 20 | Then you started on with that high-handed act , and I felt a tremendous urge to tame your proud spirit , hear your soft whimpering sighs as I buried myself in you . |
| 21 | But what if glass breaks as I make it ? |
| 22 | The girl scowls as she raises her eyes from her book entitled Human Development . |
| 23 | We all know , though , how a singing bird makes us feel and we can imagine how the bird feels as it throws its song out into the air . |
| 24 | You like yams ? ’ he asks as he hurries me through the West Indian greengrocer 's and out the back . |
| 25 | The second sense emerges as we follow his explanation of how the civil state would come into being out of a state of nature , by the making of contracts . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm looking for a partner for this new act , the Double-Take Brothers , ’ he explains as he busies himself with tea-bags and mugs of boiling water in the back offices of Hat Trick , the Soho production company responsible for putting together the series . |
| 27 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 28 | He realizes as she says it how much he 's been missing her and all the rest of them . |
| 29 | Flying the flag : The Fijian team celebrates as it retains its grip on the Cup for the third year in succession : ( l-r ) Fijian supporter , Waisale Serevi , Tomasi Cama , Vesito Rauluni ( captain ) , Mesake Rasari , Viliami Rauluni , Filimone Seru , Ratu Sakeasi ( front ) . |
| 30 | We were asking Fish Sparks as we call him how he knew about the fish that swims up your pee and he said he 'd seen some fat explorer fellow on the box going on about it , which sounded likely enough . |