Example sentences of "as [pos pn] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bit back a tart reply as my master tugged at my sleeve and we tactfully took our leave . |
| 2 | I trip on something in the ferns , twisting in mid-air as my ankle gives underneath me and I slam backwards into the ground , winding myself . |
| 3 | Well , maybe he did n't actually shout , it just felt that way as my brain recoiled on its springs . |
| 4 | They run off laughing like parrots as my companion shouts after them in disgust . |
| 5 | I felt that it was pretty rotten after the way the chap helped us , especially as my friend came from a staunch Church family . |
| 6 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |
| 7 | An attractive smartly dressed blonde in her forties stepped out of the doorway as my taxi drew to the kerb and she climbed in beside me . |
| 8 | As my daughter did on Sunday in two and a half hours . |
| 9 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
| 10 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 11 | It turned out to contain an unseen , jutting corner of the building , and as my shins crashed into it I barely managed to stifle my cry of pain . |
| 12 | As my section settled into the straw-filled barn , I dumped the rucksack , and slinging the rifle over my shoulder , went off in search of something to eat , coffee or whatever was going . |
| 13 | It felt like my wrist , but could n't have been , and as I reached the surface of consciousness , it was jerked from my hand and I was rocked fully awake by suddenly unburdened bedsprings as my Pop leapt from my bed to stand beside me . |
| 14 | I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone . |
| 15 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 16 | as my mind insisted on words |
| 17 | He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato . |
| 18 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 19 | I did n't , in fact , comment on this letter and I do n't see it as my job to stand in judgement or to moralise — though I 'll fervently agree it 's sad that a young girl takes such an apparently casual view of life : her own and her unborn baby 's . |
| 20 | The tables and the chairs , the cups and the spoons , the stains on the wall , the dust on the floor , the ache in my mind — all these things and everything else in sight mercifully receded for whole minutes at a time as my eyes took in the picture of that girl with the black hair , the pale face and the red boots . |
| 21 | As my eyes accustomed to the gloom they began to make out details close by . |
| 22 | She is never left on her own as my mother stays at home when I go out , but she just waits on my bed and wo n't eat for food until I come back . |
| 23 | And erm my my Mrs Jonathan , my aunt Auntie Bessie , invariably in Porthmadog , went to call on the families of people who 'd been lost , as my mother did in in we lost you see in fifty two men killed in world war one . |
| 24 | As my car moved through the area announcing ‘ Meet shadow chancellor John Smith as he explains Labour 's policy on fiscal and monetary reform , ’ I noticed that the town was not as crowded as I remembered it from only that morning . |
| 25 | A car driver indicates that he is turning right but goes straight on with disastrous consequences , as my brother discovered to his cost recently ! |
| 26 | I think I settled upon this last gesture as my train stopped at Greenwich this morning . |
| 27 | Eventually , it became the main type of music played by the sound systems , as its popularity grew among young blacks who abandoned skinhead reggae . |
| 28 | Following a further visit to Paris for talks with Mitterrand and French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on May 28-29 , Mazowiecki said that he had received support for Polish demands over the Polish-German border issue , as well as its request to participate in the " two-plus-four " talks on German unification [ see also above ] . |
| 29 | Here in Langdale an ewe stood weakly , blood still damp on its haunches as its offspring staggered in the shock of birth , cord still trailing in the grass . |
| 30 | But they were undoubtedly a constructive way of bringing labour and capital together to resolve their problems peacefully in an atmosphere of mutual recognition and compromise.For this reason , given that employers and governments were willing to accept that trade unions had a function and that they had come to stay , they appeared to the Labour Department of the Board of Trade as its functions developed in the early years of the twentieth century , to be especially useful in dealing with some of the conflicts between labour and capital in which it increasingly became involved . |