Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord said that we could have the hall on Sunday evenings to run the club , and we could have it for nothing as he would make his money on increased bar sales . |
| 2 | Thereafter , events had an almost predetermined ring about them as Soviet action was matched by Western reaction . |
| 3 | The SD regarded the ‘ terror raids ’ and the rumours about them as ‘ a negative morale factor of the first order ’ which had unquestionably produced ‘ a danger for the will to resist ’ , especially among women . |
| 4 | Linda Kelly has made herself so familiar with these redoubtable historical figures that she writes about them as though they were her next-door neighbours . |
| 5 | The creep will also say things like , ‘ Oh , I know just how you feel ’ or ‘ I hear what you say ’ , and by the end of the interview you 'll know as much about them as they know about you . |
| 6 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 7 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 8 | Perhaps some hon. Members will be quite content to say to their constituents that they understand their problems and sympathise , but that there is nothing that they can do about them as the matter is out of their hands . |
| 9 | He does n't like to think about them as he likes to sleep at night . |
| 10 | getting er a bit of weight off me as well |
| 11 | He spoke slowly to the children and did not take his eyes off them as he spoke . |
| 12 | I 've been , y'know , trying to get off them as well , cutting them down . |
| 13 | ‘ This is definitely not the breed for everyone as you often have a battle of wills to keep control . |
| 14 | Already a national campaign to supply school dinners for EVERYONE as of right has been launched by a group of 56 organisations , including the Child Poverty Action Group . |
| 15 | It is little wonder then that social research is equated with ‘ clap trap ’ in police magazines , for they aim to support the beliefs of those who have taken on this unconscious cosmology , and for whom as Bourdieu ( ibid. ) indicates , such challenges would defy ‘ the most natural manifestations of submission to the established order [ and abolish ] lateral possibilities ’ . |
| 16 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 17 | I think there is a lot of immaturity in it and selfishness , putting yourself at great risk for a photograph , selfish in the sense of your family ; I 'm not so much worried about me as about the effect it will have on my parents , my children or my wife . |
| 18 | I wondered if he felt as strongly about me as I did about him . |
| 19 | " I know you do n't feel about me as I do about you , but that does n't matter . " |
| 20 | He knows or can guess , just as much about me as Mahoney , and yet I 'm not frightened . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe you do n't know as much about me as you think , ’ Niall said huskily , a wealth of controlled feeling in the way he held her from him to look down at her . |
| 22 | Thus the dead hand of the past presses heavily on the head of the present and gives corporate criminals a genuine sense of irresponsibility because they feel the corporation acting through them as mere passive intermediaries . |
| 23 | The Bank is also talking to the international clearing-houses , Euroclear and Cedel , about settling gilt bargains through them as well as through its own central gilts office . |
| 24 | In the Ma'badong , we were told , they could feel all the past and future generations of their tribe resonating through them as one — they could touch their Whole People , outside time , in the here and now . |
| 25 | A sigh shivered through them as Léonie and Thérèse joined them and knelt down . |
| 26 | Claudia , sleeping hardly at all and eating only when a worried Myra stood over her , got through them as best she could . |
| 27 | She glanced through them as she ate . |
| 28 | The salts dissolved in the oceans do not reside there permanently , rather they cycle through them as they pass from crystalline to sedimentary rock . |
| 29 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 30 | I rest my head against the bars and gaze through them as into a cage . |