Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 2 | ‘ Devil ! ’ he said and dismounted so as to approach the thicket more closely . |
| 3 | Cyclists , like other road users , must obey the traffic signs erected generally as required along roads . |
| 4 | Cyclists , like other road users , must obey the traffic signs erected generally as required along roads . |
| 5 | Cyclists , like other road users , must obey the traffic signs erected generally as required along roads . |
| 6 | The miracle occurred just as predicted . |
| 7 | The Manichaeans , described also as Bogomils , Cathars and Patarenes , believed in equal forces of good and evil . |
| 8 | The filing sequence should be uniquely identified by a ‘ reference number ’ of alphanumeric codes , built up as follows : |
| 9 | The greenbelt boundary as I mentioned earlier as proposed by the County Council is very tightly drawn , excluding the sites which have been mentioned which our allocated , there is no land between the edge of the urban area and the proposed greenbelt boundary and that does seem to us , continues to seem to us er not an appropriate way forward . |
| 10 | A landslide of earth and debris on Oct. 25 , 1989 , buried a shantytown on the outskirts of Sao Paulo , reported variously as killing between 15 and 60 people . |
| 11 | But Pau survived , and in the late 1860s was at its most popular with British and , by this time , some American winterers , with up to I , 500 of them registered yearly as staying or living there . |
| 12 | Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and wife Madeleine , below , dropped in as did King Constantine of Greece and Lady Thatcher . |
| 13 | Perhaps making sure the same number of people came out as went in ! |
| 14 | ( 2/10 ) Against Huddersfield ( 1–1 9/10 ) and Scunthorpe ( won 2–0 16/10 ) Smithard played well as did Tony Grant who got two and Martin Littlewood who bagged one . |
| 15 | He played well as lead to Chris Bryan , but it was Whiteman 's all-Barking rink and again Paul Maynard 's all-Essex County quartet of youngsters who particularly caught the eye . |
| 16 | Yet enquiry will show that everything in fact happened just as predicted . |
| 17 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 18 | Well , Gav and I met up as planned and had an ‘ interesting ’ drive to the match . |
| 19 | A loss on sale of £54,000 was recognised in the consolidated accounts , made up as follows : |
| 20 | The Assembly had 65 seats , made up as follows : 53 allocated directly to party lists on the basis of proportional representation ; 10 representing the 10 regional democratic councils or RDCs ( the RDCs having also been elected in polling on Oct. 5 ) ; and two chosen by the National Congress of Local Democratic Organizations ( NCLDO , itself elected by RDC members ) . |
| 21 | The Doctor frowned as if having second thoughts , then stepped aside as promised . |
| 22 | However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) . |
| 23 | If this is the case , the adjustment is best made with the strings slackened so as to reduce the possibility of damaging the knife edges on the bridgeplate . |
| 24 | They started off as bynames — nicknames , sobriquets and such — to distinguish two persons in the same locality who might be called Alfred , Edgar , Edith or Ethelhild , or to mark some outstanding characteristic . |
| 25 | Well , we started off as expected but then the pupils started asking : |
| 26 | In a game the pain of life can safely be recaptured , encountered and switched off as required , for as we have seen , a game and all other forms of playing including the arts are deliberately created second-order experiences , removed from the rawness of living . |
| 27 | Among his innovations was the provision of charts , bound up as atlases , for the use of officers in Her Majesty 's ships , in addition to those specially provided for the ship 's navigation , which were rarely seen by officers other than the captain and the navigator . |
| 28 | Gold was found there and a full scale conservation row broke out as mining exploration started . |
| 29 | Britain 's trade deficit with the rest of the world shrank dramatically as output from factories rose . |
| 30 | Paschal II , who was slowly giving way on the question of homage , which Anselm looked on as settled , sweetened the pill by piecemeal concessions on the primacy . |