Example sentences of "[v-ing] to them as " in BNC.
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1 | Spittals ' hands glowed from the diligent rubbing he was applying to them as she came in through the door at ten o'clock . |
2 | T. D. There were men on the opposite beat and sometimes you could spend a little time talking to them as long as you were n't caught . |
3 | Albert was talking to them as they waited to leave , and the boy had a large rubber ball that he would insist on throwing about in the compartment . |
4 | Referring to them as she detracts from the clarity of my work , since the reader is brought up short by the unfamiliar , inappropriate form . |
5 | However , by taking the wholesale price of two common " low cost " items as a yardstick ( Yagcibedir and Afghan Belouch ) , we can fix the approximate prices of rugs from other groups by referring to them as either plus or minus x per cent . |