Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first visit the social worker met the son-in-law as she arrived , rushing out of the flat , with the door slammed . |
| 2 | Mrs Hopkins , who lives in Walsall , met the princess as she visited a hospital in West Bromwich , West Midlands . |
| 3 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 4 | It may stress the past as different and difficult to know , an important corrective to those who claim to discover the past ‘ speaking ’ on the basis of only a couple of selected voices . |
| 5 | I would respectfully agree with his description , in relation to dishonest actions , of appropriation as involving an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights , but I believe that the less aggressive definition of appropriation which I have put forward fits the word as used in an honest sense in section 2(1) as well as elsewhere in the Act . |
| 6 | Even a reliable pattern recogniser could only find a word which best fits the script as it appears , having no knowledge to suggest that that word is incorrect . |
| 7 | She left him lying there and went down to say good night , treading on the paint at the side of the stairs to spare the carpet as Mr Evans had told her to do . |
| 8 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 9 | Sally Morrisey , the night sister , had just completed the hand-over as Lindsey walked into Reception . |
| 10 | Garrison Savannah who almost won the National two years ago appears to have returned to his old form if you take his Gold Cup run on board for he was always in touch before blundering and losing his chance late in the race , but he may not stay the trip as happened two years ago when he was beaten by Seagram . |
| 11 | Under these circumstances , stop grooming the dog as normal , but instead switch this to a new locality . |
| 12 | Consequently , he endured the pain as he went through a few simple movements . |
| 13 | Shafts of bright sunlight pierced the smoke as it welled up from the eaves and spread across the roof in a fine blue film. , Kāli came out into the doorway with a plate of puris and a small bowl of oil . |
| 14 | He had received the news as chief reporter at the Bishop Auckland office of The Northern Echo . |
| 15 | The boys not scribing joined in by offering ideas and producing elaborate pictures , inventing new details to enliven the narrative as they developed their pictures . |
| 16 | A tutor from the centre where the applicant has applied to study , will act as mentor and advise/assist the applicant as necessary in completing the form and preparing a supportive portfolio of documentary evidence . |
| 17 | At home the war divided the nation as no previous war had done . |
| 18 | The proposal to restore the provost as local civic figurehead raises the prospect of restoring a position to the region 's small towns and burghs which was lost in the 1975 reforms . |
| 19 | This method was in fact implemented to establish its characteristics and for comparison with other methods , by building the tree as usual , and then pruning the branches to give the required structure as in figure 3.10 . |
| 20 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 21 | The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections . |
| 22 | I would ask this committee to keep this in the programme and to monitor the situation as it goes along . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't worry , total silence , ’ Wayne had assured her and then he 'd loaded the ovens into the van and left her to make her way upstairs , touching the wall as she went . |
| 24 | They approached the steps and Rain fastidiously avoided touching the rail as she descended . |
| 25 | Environmentalists have criticized the plan as naive . |
| 26 | National Assembly members had criticized the budget as " consumption orientated " and as constituting a withdrawal of the state from the economy , as spending on state administration , defence and various government agencies was reduced . |
| 27 | So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands . |
| 28 | Lacan shows how the recognition of ourselves in the image of the face is based on a misrecognition , since we perceive the face as our own when in fact it is produced in the image outside ourselves . |
| 29 | The situation is different for native speakers of the language who automatically perceive the speech as being chopped up into discrete units . |
| 30 | WP Certainly , people respond to whether they perceive the world as threatening or reassuring . |