Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 2 | Von Schirach pointed out that ‘ this unlimited , almost religious veneration , to which I contributed as did Goebbels , Göring , Hess , Ley , and countless others , strengthened in Hitler himself the belief that he was in league with Providence ’ . |
| 3 | As tea had been decided upon , I arrived as planned at 3.30 p.m . |
| 4 | With UAPT 's area files , only information about the named subject of the inquiry and their spouse , and information about someone recorded as living under a closely comparable name very close by , is passed . |
| 5 | Now that it was really beginning , now that I was going to be near him , I felt as strung up and as energized as Zak , and no doubt suffered the same compelling anxiety that things should n't go wrong . |
| 6 | I felt as taken aback as he looked . |
| 7 | Most certainly , the Conservatives relied upon a theme song which combined Al Jolson 's hit song ‘ Sonny Boy ’ with the dependability of Baldwin , the first few lines of which ran as follows : |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher resisted attempts by Brussels to promote a Community-wide Social Charter , which she regarded as introducing ‘ socialism by the back door ’ . |
| 9 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 10 | We sent this letter to the authors of the manual , who replied as follows . |
| 11 | The best shows in London had girls who worked as showgirls . |
| 12 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 13 | but , erm it might of taken longer than what she thought as regards her London ends you see |
| 14 | It worked and for the next half hour she was able to quiz the woman whom she saw as having stolen her happiness on every aspect of her life . |
| 15 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 16 | Jocelyne Saab , on the other hand , took issue with the question itself , which she saw as confined to the typically limited preoccupations of White , Western , middle-class feminists . |
| 17 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 18 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |
| 19 | And how can you bring this positive word into the examples you gave as answers to question three ? |
| 20 | Only that she left as arranged , likening |
| 21 | This agrees with the estimates arrived at by Townsend who concluded as follows : |
| 22 | Sometimes she found certain phrases , certain inflections creeping into her French which she recognized as belonging to the Princesse . |
| 23 | After she married her husband Ted , she underwent as did he tests and medical treatment for their childless state . |
| 24 | We 've got three in total two we got as strays and another from a friend . |
| 25 | Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off . |
| 26 | Everything went as planned . |
| 27 | It all worked out in the end and everything went as planned . |
| 28 | One particularly stupid one ran as follows : |
| 29 | ‘ I do believe we have found the saint we mourned as lost . ’ |
| 30 | The most depressing aspect he had found had been the neglect of the fundamental issue of liberty raised by MPs ’ proposals to prevent what they regarded as abuses by the press . |