Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 2 | In April a restlessness seemed to come into the air as the village began to throw off the lethargy of winter . |
| 3 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 4 | They had a tiny room on the ground floor lit by a small leaded window and heated by an open fire from which as much smoke seemed to blow into the room as went up the chimney . |
| 5 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 6 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 7 | The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole . |
| 8 | The car 's powerful engine began to tick in the silence as it cooled in the mild evening breeze . |
| 9 | Foam began to spread through the air as the fire-fighting systems reacted automatically to the emergency . |
| 10 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 11 | Sometimes the wheelbarrow was stuck so firmly that the aluminium honeycomb began to rip from the rim as I pushed . |
| 12 | She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open . |
| 13 | Since the machine began to move towards the water as soon as they were inside , changing in its damp , smelly and retracted confines was none too easy , despite the lure of their newly acquired bathing costumes . |
| 14 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 15 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 16 | The three MPs elected in 1987 continued to sit in the Commons as independent social democrats while on July 15 the national committee reversed its earlier decision to suspend the constitution . |
| 17 | Lord Spens said he wished to continue with the trial as he was confident of undermining the prosecution and exposing Argyll 's tactics in the battle . |
| 18 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 19 | Leeds continued to pile on the points as Iro burst through for loose forward Hanley to score a seventh try . |
| 20 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
| 21 | Lacking reliable counter-sources , the Americans had to rely on the world as constructed by Manucher Ghorbanifar . |
| 22 | However , on Dec. 17 a motion which the Socialists had helped to draft , to indict Hervé and Dufoix but not Fabius for " failing to assist people in danger " , was blocked when the Socialists changed their minds and refused to vote on the motion as it stood . |
| 23 | The fact that she had implied that she intended to withdraw from the arrangement as soon as it was convenient did not matter , Jehan thought , unless Alexei 's character was to provide the excuse … |