Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Helen paused , he cannoned into her and she turned , offering a startled apology that turned into a cry of alarm as Goldman shoved her to one side . |
| 2 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 3 | Sweat had stained his shirt and as Doyle approached he could smell the effort on the man 's body . |
| 4 | For , as Lecourt describes it , he attempts |
| 5 | By June 1944 , those statistics had improved greatly , but as Dan tells us , ‘ Statistics proved you were dead after 25 missions in those days . |
| 6 | ‘ Really milky ‘ milk runs ’ as Dan described them . |
| 7 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 8 | God keep you , Solper , ’ he muttered and went towards the door just as Fitzosbert threw it open . |
| 9 | But even so , as Ven escorted her inside to where he had a table booked , she felt him a most potent force . |
| 10 | As Yeremi followed him , he breathed in the dust of death , motes from the pulverized bones . |
| 11 | Bazaar rumour had it that her closeness to Shah Jehan went beyond merely normal filial affection ; after all , as Bernier put it : ‘ it would have been unjust to deny the King the privilege of gathering fruit from the tree he himself had planted . ’ |
| 12 | Outwardly , as Alianor saw her , she gave the appearance of a servant — but inwardly , to Joan herself , she was a damsel going to meet her lover . |
| 13 | As Sheila watched him go , she knew that in spite of the hurtful words he had just spoken she would always have a soft spot for the man . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Marcus came less and less often , perhaps ‘ frightened off ’ , as Alison put it , by Pat 's noisy friends , or simply feeling that Pat no longer needed him . |
| 15 | As Nairn put it , the late nineteenth century witnessed ‘ first the containment , then the defeat , of industrialism by an older , more powerful and more political bourgeoisie ’ ( cited in Coates , 1984 , p. 117 ) . |
| 16 | Freeing the study of politics from its ‘ structural overtones ’ , as Almond put it , not only meant searching for the familiar functions of government in unfamiliar social structures ( such as administration by age sets ) . |
| 17 | I am , however , inclined to believe that the authentic Hecataeus could not have stated , as Josephus makes him state , that Alexander gave the Samaritan territory free of tax to the Jews . |
| 18 | As Corrigan puts it : ‘ The kids are not crazy . |
| 19 | As Corrigan puts it , the young supporter ‘ knows that a crowd of teachers chanting ‘ We hate Nottingham Forest' ’ is just not on' . |
| 20 | What origins , and what final justice , can be found for the critical assumption that , as Bradbury expresses it , ‘ the experimental tradition did shift or lapse ’ in Britain after modernism ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) ? |
| 21 | As MacDonald described it later : |
| 22 | As Stewart puts it : |
| 23 | This ‘ outward-sainted deputy ’ , as Isabella calls him ( in words that recall Christ 's ‘ whited sepulchres ’ ) , who imagines that he has enjoyed the sister and killed the brother — thus breaking even the corrupt contract he had himself proposed — listens with composure to Isabella 's accusation that he is ‘ a murderer , … an adulterous thief , /An hypocrite , a virgin-violator ’ ( V.i.39ff ) . |
| 24 | By contrast with the Liberal understanding , the kingdom as Blumhardt preached it was not gradually evolving through history , nor identified with the moral progress of human civilisation , but would come ‘ from beyond ’ . |
| 25 | Claudia said demurely as Roman carried her into the bedroom . |
| 26 | Her eyes flew open as Roman kissed her again , his hands stroking the soft shoulders , revealed by her scanty nightdress . |
| 27 | She watched as Roman poured it into small white cups . |
| 28 | There was a pause as Roman inspected her carefully composed face . |
| 29 | As Mira sees it , this form of language use has had an indelible effect on human consciousness : |
| 30 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |