Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But members turned the application down as they felt it would cause more late-night trouble . |
| 2 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 3 | Fernandez remembered North breaking down as he told him , sitting in a parked car one night , that Buckley was dead ; David Jacobsen , the last hostage to be released as a result of the arms transfers , recalled North in tears on the aeroplane to Germany , wishing that the other hostages had been freed with him . |
| 4 | Last night , Johanna 's father broke down as he revealed his daughter had mysteriously taken down her 50 Christmas cards from her bedroom wall only hours before disappearing . |
| 5 | His large adam 's apple moved up and down as he swallowed his nerves . |
| 6 | He was secure enough to turn his back , to show me the two foul moons of his backside , heaving up and down as he ground her into the floor . |
| 7 | Before the 17C there were two statues on the bridge , one of the Crucifixion , which Elizabeth of Bohemia ( the Winter Queen ) foolishly insisted should be torn down as she said it looked like a naked bather , and the other of the moderate Hussite king , George Poděbrady . |
| 8 | Herta kept her head down as I helped her off with her coat . |
| 9 | Walked in as I said it . |
| 10 | She just toppled over as I touched her . |
| 11 | ‘ I came over as I said I would , ’ Susan smiled at Maggie . |
| 12 | Several hours later the bird 's relieved owner arrived at the station , explaining the parrot has flown off as she took it to her grandchildren for a treat . |
| 13 | Her voice trailed off as she realised he was not listening to her . |
| 14 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 15 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 16 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
| 17 | Grimm has collected Carnelian 's hat , which fell off as I chased him . |
| 18 | Now , at the age of fifty-odd , the name was pathetically incongruous , calling up as it did someone fresh , compact and sparkling , with an air of crisp , but old-world domesticity . |
| 19 | It was a nightgown case and his eyes lit up as he saw it . |
| 20 | Egbert Rose woke up to grey skies over Broadstairs , cheered up as he realised he was on holiday , and than remembered that he was not . |
| 21 | He offered to tutor the girl , but after trying to teach her for a while , gave it up as he considered she was unable to focus on what she was being taught . |
| 22 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 23 | I looked at it was twenty past eight cos he pulled up as I drew my curtains . |
| 24 | Susan had looked up as she felt his glance and had smiled towards him before moving to the group by the window . |
| 25 | Another sign loomed ahead and she frowned into the darkness , slowing up as she approached it . |
| 26 | She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself . |
| 27 | He jumped up as she joined him . |
| 28 | A woman , intensely reading a magazine in the corner , gave him a quick thumbs up as she caught his gaze . |
| 29 | He nodded without looking up as she placed it on the counter . |
| 30 | All the lights in the town were out as we made our way through the almost empty streets . |