Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheffield Wednesday boss Trevor Francis is hoping for the same kind of bargain with Tishkov as Ferguson discovered when he paid just £650,000 for Kanchelskis . |
| 2 | He was off-balance , his defences down as Ward drew back his right arm and slammed that gloved hand straight into the sallow face . |
| 3 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 4 | As Cecilia sat down she felt the earthquake rumblings that came when a train passed by . |
| 5 | AS PAKISTAN plays out its political crisis , the plot has taken another twist . |
| 6 | She watched carefully as Travis lingered over his own cup . |
| 7 | Merson , so impressive for England in Czechoslovakia last month , scored a hat-trick , the second goal resulting from a superlative piece of skill , as Arsenal stepped up their pursuit of a UEFA Cup place by extending their unbeaten run to 13 matches . |
| 8 | As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone . |
| 9 | ( As Irving points out it was , frankly , anachronistic ; more or less what Edouard Daladier had demanded after the disturbances in Indochina in 1930 . ) |
| 10 | Silence settled on the assembled company as Ramsey read out his team . |
| 11 | He looked up happily as Hari put down her basket and took off her shawl . |
| 12 | That remark sent a flash of real irritation through her , as Ronni remembered how he had laughed at her before , mocking what he perceived to be her dull life in London . |
| 13 | As Rachaela got up something seemed to tear inside her all the way down , between her spine and stomach . |
| 14 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 15 | Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises . |
| 16 | As Shannon looked up she caught a coldly calculating glint in the actress 's green eyes , but it was gone before Marianne turned to Dane , her beautifully shaped mouth pouting prettily . |
| 17 | AFTER the midweek Arbroath avalanche , there was n't a snowball 's chance at sun-drenched Firhill of another crazy scoreline as Celtic picked up their first league win of the season , courtesy of Mark McNally . |
| 18 | AFTER the midweek Arbroath avalanche , there was n't a snowball 's chance at sun-drenched Firhill of another crazy scoreline as Celtic picked up their first league win of the season , courtesy of Mark McNally . |
| 19 | Then the music starts , and proceedings plunge from terrible to worse as Mick turns up his five-string fretless ego-bass and it farts rudely into our ears , followed by sickeningly bland streams of wah-wah guitar , scratching , torturous violin and pseudo- ‘ passionate ’ vocals all ‘ awash ’ ( © Tosspot Session Musician 's Handbook , 1972 ) in bloated keyboard atmospherics that would make ELP sound like The Lurkers . |
| 20 | As Zen turned away he glanced at the calendar hanging beside the phone , and suddenly realized what day it was . |
| 21 | Colin Stephens also punished the home side 's indiscretions by kicking three penalties as Llanelli followed up their Heineken League performance against Pontypool the previous week with another emphatic victory . |
| 22 | As Tom came out he became conscious of them again and quickly pulled them up . |
| 23 | But as soon as Tom came back they did n't want to you know . |
| 24 | Just 11,493 spectators turned up at Upton Park as ITV kicked off its live Football League coverage to rival Channel 4 's Italian action and Sky 's Premier League offering . |
| 25 | Wilson , himself a soccer fan , was the same , as Crossman discovered when he went to see him in April 1970 about a set of lectures on Cabinet government he was preparing for Harvard : |
| 26 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 27 | An elderly lady who had once asked Franz Liszt for his autograph , felt quite faint as Fred took off his kilt and reached for the laces of his boots . |
| 28 | Lewis , too , had been watching as Aldrich wrote out his statement ; and wondering how a man could write so fluently . |
| 29 | ‘ As soon as Sam came along I made a vow never to smoke near him . |
| 30 | Boz left the stable without another word as Seb flung aside his pitchfork and climbed down from the loft to hurry to the farmhouse . |