Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract . |
| 2 | That 's a really fine line right there because some bands tend to come across as doing a speed metal/jazz fusion . |
| 3 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 4 | Oh , alright then , I want to go home as well ! |
| 5 | Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss ; she is always self-possessed ; every move of mine is coldly monitored . |
| 6 | ‘ We expect to go ahead as 12 , ’ a government official said in London . |
| 7 | Like Maxwell , smoothy Hunter tried to come across as everyone 's friend , especially at Christmas when , dressed as Santa , he handed gifts to children of staff . |
| 8 | ‘ Anybody with any information , no matter how silly they think it is , has to come forward as we must get these people or else they will do it again . |
| 9 | The level of uptake is encouraging given that SVQs are relatively new , and enrolments are expected to increase steadily as more and more centres offer the growing number of awards available . |
| 10 | We do try not to use er the disabled sticker if it 's at all possible , because we actually want to behave just as anyone else behaves , in a , just an ordinary member of the community , and so do the children . |
| 11 | One can , however , walk freely round the well and truly trussed-up Book of Motion which starts to vibrate violently as we walked past it . |
| 12 | In the early 1970s the new counties of Humberside and Avon were expected to grow rapidly as the population of the country expanded . |
| 13 | He or she could not be expected to emerge simply as the result of exposure to the properly approved values , though such exposure was crucial , hence the importance of suitable club workers , in particular those with a public-school background . |
| 14 | With rare exceptions , refugee children were expected to leave home as soon as they could fend for themselves . |
| 15 | Everyone who is anyone in Fort Worth throws a party for the competition , either for the jury or for the competitors — who are permitted to mix only as they are eliminated . |
| 16 | Because we have been made children of God ; we carry the family likeness through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit ; we want to live so as to please our Heavenly Father ; and we enjoy his Fatherly protection and generous provision . |
| 17 | could n't wait to get away as soon as he got his bloody present , he was |
| 18 | For this reason , the algorithm needs to scan backward as well as forward , and therefore takes twice as long as the simple algorithm . |
| 19 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 20 | ‘ No meaning ’ atheists tend to talk rather as A.J. Ayer talks in Language , Truth and Logic , as if there is no possibility of a Deity existing because there is no possibility of making sense of the word ‘ God ’ : |
| 21 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 22 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 23 | Everyone hastened to stand aside as he made for the door . |
| 24 | Ryan 's eyes seemed to bulge even as she watched , and she threw herself frantically towards them . |
| 25 | Mr Lewis 's smile seemed to broaden slightly as he said this . |
| 26 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 27 | Some — the Woolwich , for example — are wedded to the idea of mutual ownership and hope to survive indefinitely as mutually-owned retail banks . |
| 28 | Thus the various indications , airspeed , altitude , rate of climb , attitude and magnetic heading were seen to move exactly as the pilot 's instruments had operated as the accident approached . |
| 29 | A group of famous and highly-motivated mothers — that 's a few of them above — decided to band together as Parents For Safe Food to ( a ) draw attention to what long-term use of powerful chemicals can do and ( b ) work with government , farmers and all the others in the food chain to try to find a solution . |
| 30 | She could hear the audience begin to breathe heavily as they watched the machine-driven dildo lewdly disappear , centimetre by centimetre , into her cute snatch . |