Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Emmerson explained at the Seminar , banks typically only save information where legal or business requirements make the information necessary or useful . |
| 2 | Gilly nearly tripped over herself , leaping down and grabbing up ‘ Sarsaparilla to Sorcery ’ from the chair seat , stretching her guts out to tip the book into its place on the shelf as Trotter appeared at the door . |
| 3 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 4 | As Frankie roars at the close of ‘ Not Superstitious ’ , ‘ We all need an attitude ’ , Leatherface certainly have that … in spades . |
| 5 | As Rincewind stared at the crowd , with sensations of prickly horror travelling up his spine , there came a gentle prod in the small of his back . |
| 6 | Those tube trains are full of them , ’ he was saying agitatedly as Pooley arrived at the table at which they were having tea . |
| 7 | Mrs Crump asked , as Hope glanced at the card . |
| 8 | HE was the butt of jokes as England flopped at the European Championship . |
| 9 | Mabel Peacock suggests ( Folklore 15 , 1944 ) that as Stamford lay at the junction of Rutland , Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire , perhaps ‘ the men of these shires anciently met by the Welland to observe the traditional rites intended to secure the prosperity of their territories ’ . |
| 10 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 11 | But , as Gordon said at the time , ‘ to maintain my challenge for a place on the national side and even to take part meaningfully in the national squad training , it is necessary to train and play club football at the very highest level ’ . |
| 12 | The computer started to print out the bill as Adam looked at the picture on the front page of the newspaper . |
| 13 | Anyone possessing the gall to launch three blows into orbit and over the fence in the opening 20 minutes of the day , as Hooper did at The Oval last August when West Indies were following on , is no mere mortal . |
| 14 | ‘ Now what ? ’ said Rohmer as Gilbert fumbled at the plinth and found a torch . |
| 15 | In a second , as Suzanne looked at the seated pair , Franca realised something . |
| 16 | As Mary looked at the couple , the fire seemed to die in her . |
| 17 | As Mary looked at the hole , she noticed something almost buried there . |
| 18 | Just as Jos glanced at the incessant downpour and said . |
| 19 | Hunt had the greatest respect for his capacity as a driver ; on the other hand , as Hunt said at the time , the difference between Niki 's Ferrari and the McLaren was really negligible . |
| 20 | As Mungo peered at the tank shell , a voice behind him said : |
| 21 | Now she walked into the kitchen as Lizzy sat at the breakfast bar and threw the diary in front of her . |
| 22 | If God made us for himself , as Augustine recognized at the beginning of his Confessions , then we will always be restless until we orient our lives towards God and rest in him alone . |
| 23 | Yesterday , the couple were apart as Diana lunched at the Brazilian embassy , with her close friend Lucia Flecha de Lima , wife of the ambassador to London . |
| 24 | The weather was changing : blue-black clouds were building in the south-east and , as Wycliffe arrived at the back of the Garlands ' shop , they obscured the sun . |
| 25 | At L.A. County , Rusty built the profile of the museum through big exhibitions … just as Carter did at the National Gallery ’ . |
| 26 | Reddy employed the same technique as Johansson to arrive at the least expensive energy — first estimating needs , then filling them through sources of power and energy efficiency , starting with the cheapest method , and when that was used as fully as possible , moving to the next cheapest . |
| 27 | And as Fabia gasped at the implication she saw behind that statement Lubor was going on , ‘ It is I who asks you , for myself . |
| 28 | That 's right , as , as , as Theresa said at the beginning , one of the prime characteristics of dreams is this kind of visual erm symbolism and in the course of analyzing thousands of dreams of course which he did in his practice , Freud found that very often certain fundamental things that people tend to dream about quite a lot tend to appear in lots of people 's dreams with similar kinds of er representations , and among the most notorious and obvious of these were things related to sex . |
| 29 | As Collins looks at the current Leeds squad , costing around 10 million , he sees real depth . |
| 30 | The dividend cover is not wonderful but it 's perfectly adequaly adequate as Michael said at the beginning . |