Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [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 | He did n't like to think he was the kind of person who took things from strangers in pubs and then passed them off as presents to girls he was supposed to love . |
| 5 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 6 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mavis drew me aside as soon as she saw an opportunity . |
| 9 | The giant palms lining the road inspected me disinterestedly as I coasted along trying to find the Alcade Apartments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Only the 16th caught him out as he took three putts for his only bogey . |
| 14 | On Wednesday he came and found her just as she was finishing off applying a back-slab to a fractured wrist . |
| 15 | Ryker regarded her furiously as the uniformed man extended a hand to help her up . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | M. Berton regarded him alone as capable of directing [ diriger ] the large Paris Opéra orchestra , after himself . |
| 18 | Graham 's first touch let him down as Boro waited for offside and Stephen Pears was able to smother the ball . |
| 19 | He caught her up as she was turning into the courtyard to cross to her own front door . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | When he saw the finished portrait Cocteau was shaken and described it privately as ‘ diabolical ’ . |
| 24 | Other car industry sources described it variously as " utopian " and " unreasonable " , and said it was not being taken seriously . |
| 25 | Border described it all as media nonsense , saying he had , in fact , stayed behind to attend to some personal business . |
| 26 | as if on cue , the car-phone gave a discreet purr to punctuate Tom 's passionate sentence , and he snatched it up as he braked at traffic-lights which had just turned red . |
| 27 | She used it now as she said , ‘ It 's so sweet of Susan to spare you tonight . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And it always woke me up as the lorry hit me , and it really hurt , and I woke up |
| 30 | Hence they were also called Dualists and the Church condemned them accordingly as heretical in their beliefs . |