Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 2 | Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy . |
| 3 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 4 | She was only saying it as a balance . |
| 5 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 6 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 7 | When we were reading it I found that I was just reading it as a book and the and that all the coming about you forget who 's in , who 's there and who 's not there . |
| 8 | Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase . |
| 9 | One particularly persistent gentleman was clearly using us as a punchbag for his English . |
| 10 | He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer . |