Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This steered them away , as I had meant it to , and they talked for a while longer , then fell silent , enjoying the warmth and the view . |
| 2 | He told us the rules of the game , just as I 've described them to you . |
| 3 | Christine paused most meaningfully … ‘ she said as you had given it to her , sir . |
| 4 | And I think in the context of what P P G twelve says , it is right for this examination , to consider the proposal as you have presented it to us . |
| 5 | Is God really as good as you have trusted him to be ? |
| 6 | Rose , with the same tact as she had brought them to the house , was careful to absent herself from these occasions as much as possible . |
| 7 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 8 | In my judgment she remains capable as she has demonstrated herself to be capable of renouncing the tenets of the faith to suit her own chosen way of life . |
| 9 | We learn to see God as he really is , and not as we have imagined him to be . |
| 10 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 11 | To take one example , how will workers respond to the realization that the rate of inflation is not zero , as they had expected it to be , but is in fact positive ? |
| 12 | And she had a way of conjuring up places , in terms of their dimensions , that led those same children to explore their houses and fields blindfold ; the dark world that they discovered with their fingertips was new to them — but not frightening as they had supposed it to be . |
| 13 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 14 | They had all learned from him ; she and Lisa still spoke , stylistically , as he had taught them to . |
| 15 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 16 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |
| 17 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 18 | It was unoccupied , as he had expected it to be . |
| 19 | Theologians often distinguish between God as he is in himself , and God as he has revealed himself to us . |
| 20 | The arguments , as he has presented them to me both on earlier occasions and tonight , are , indeed , seductive . |