Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] as [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conceivably connected too is the possibility that Æthelred took as a consort the daughter of a Northumbrian earl , Thored , maybe to mollify such of the northerners as had supported him . |
| 2 | In the circumstances there is in my judgment no option but to give effect to the literal meaning of the words as did the Court of Appeal . |
| 3 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 4 | Tite and Donaldson closed the meeting with a half-hearted suggestion that a new competition could be organized among the prize-winners as had been done at the new library at Cambridge . |
| 5 | Of course he had known Rufus had this in mind , was three years through his time at medical school , had already considerable knowledge and nous — who could forget that ? — but somehow he had imagined that the same fate would have overtaken the others as had overtaken him , a deathly stultifying , an inhibition on all that was ambitious and of ascendant character , a remorseful withdrawing into the shade . |