Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 2 | Another thing is , in prison you mix with everyone , and I think that made me worse as well . |
| 3 | Diniz Vasquez was not visible in the shouting throng of people with sacks , boxes and baskets that crowded the inner yard of the fort of Famagusta , although Nicholas scanned them all as he was led across it . |
| 4 | When she threw five eggs ( and the hens were laying badly ) at the kitchen maid , he caught them cleverly as they sailed through the air . |
| 5 | Mavis drew me aside as soon as she saw an opportunity . |
| 6 | The giant palms lining the road inspected me disinterestedly as I coasted along trying to find the Alcade Apartments . |
| 7 | And he said , today he phoned me just as I was going out and I did n't really sort of stop and talk to him very long . |
| 8 | He regarded them now as he regarded other ordinary but embarrassing habits of youth : odd hair styles , a passion for cheap cologne , eccentric dressing , strange obsessions — all things to be grown out of . |
| 9 | Do n't be a fool , she scolded herself silently as Michele led the way down the echoing tunnel to a fancy wrought-iron gate at the far end . |
| 10 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 11 | On Wednesday he came and found her just as she was finishing off applying a back-slab to a fractured wrist . |
| 12 | Ryker regarded her furiously as the uniformed man extended a hand to help her up . |
| 13 | He mattered to Shelley very much — as a doctor and as a person , and she could n't bear to think of him losing that precious heart to this young girl , who regarded him just as someone to pay her bills . |
| 14 | M. Berton regarded him alone as capable of directing [ diriger ] the large Paris Opéra orchestra , after himself . |
| 15 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |
| 16 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 17 | The government 's representative at the inquiry , Energy Department official Christopher Wilcock , described it openly as ‘ a broad , political — and I stress the word political — strategic judgement ’ . |
| 18 | When he saw the finished portrait Cocteau was shaken and described it privately as ‘ diabolical ’ . |
| 19 | Other car industry sources described it variously as " utopian " and " unreasonable " , and said it was not being taken seriously . |
| 20 | Border described it all as media nonsense , saying he had , in fact , stayed behind to attend to some personal business . |
| 21 | She used it now as she said , ‘ It 's so sweet of Susan to spare you tonight . |
| 22 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
| 23 | Hence they were also called Dualists and the Church condemned them accordingly as heretical in their beliefs . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's enough of that , ’ Ross told them firmly as he threw aside the sheets , revealing the fact that he was wearing a pair of boxer shorts . |
| 25 | I 'd tried to keep my voice light , coaxing , but she studied me coolly as though she 'd picked up my unspoken reservations and would not forget them . |
| 26 | Jakali shooed them away as she came in . |
| 27 | ‘ Her name is Shinko , ’ he told me happily as we walked back to the flat . |
| 28 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 29 | ‘ How bad it would be , ’ Marty told himself callously as he watched him go , ‘ to have your bed and your bellyful and no worries at all ! ’ |
| 30 | Maybe that was the basic problem , she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling . |