Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 2 | One of Assad 's closest confidantes ( and Monzer al-Kassar 's brother-in-law ) , Dubah was the cartel 's principal enforcer , frequently co-opting Ahmed Jibril 's PFLP — GC , the Abu Nidal faction and other Palestinian terrorist groups to do his dirty work as well as using them routinely as part-time agents in his ‘ legitimate ’ intelligence operations . |
| 3 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 4 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |
| 5 | The tabloid papers , which make their money from guessing the prejudices of their readers and dressing them up as informed opinion , had a field day . |
| 6 | The object was to buy King Airs and other aircraft from South Africa and ferry them home to sell , hiring them out as and when . |
| 7 | A small jeweller in Switzerland , who for years had made good profits by flagrantly copying de Chavigny designs , using inferior stones , low-carat metals and cheap workmanship , and then passing them off as de Chavigny originals through an impenetrable network of shady dealers and retailers , found its bank was suddenly very glad to extend credit for new workshops and an expansion programme . |
| 8 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He went among the beggars who congregated in tube-station entrances , looking them over as they sat hunched and huddled on steps . |
| 11 | Wade through them , swinging it from left to right in a figure of eight and yelling like mad , forcing them back as you break out towards safety like a samurai in the Tokyo rush hour . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the price that has been pulling them out as well as the thought of missing out on some paperwork . |
| 13 | There was a practice at one time — no doubt it still continues in certain quarters — of collecting the rootstocks in which implanted buds had failed , bundling them up and selling them off as hedging . |
| 14 | We expected to gain insight into what these transitions mean to the individuals undergoing them so as to find ways of offering them understanding and support . |
| 15 | Find the area of the following shapes by splitting them up as shown above . |
| 16 | Another charge of a similar kind is that Barth was excessively concerned with ontology , with the rationale of the being of God ; that he misused biblical terms and concepts on the one hand by treating them semi-literally as ‘ ontic ’ , as descriptive of the way things actually are when they are often pictorial or metaphorical , and on the other hand by turning the whole of Scripture into a vast allegory of Jesus Christ ; and that this reflected a Platonist streak in his thinking which encouraged an unbalanced concentration on eternal realities rather than the actual world of concrete life and experience . |
| 17 | they just want to start it , cos once they start getting through that 's when they start getting wanting decent , wanting to eat more and I mean I make them clean theirs thoroughly , they 're really good at doing them actually as well |
| 18 | When you are able to do this with the major scales , try the various minors , modes and arpeggios , mixing them up as they might occur in a chord progression . |
| 19 | ‘ If we get in front we wo n't make the same mistake of lying back and letting them in as we did in Belfast , ’ said captain and centre back Alan McDonald ( Queens Park Rangers ) . |
| 20 | This policy indicated that princes were ceasing to regard their demesnes , those ragbags of rights and scattered pieces of land , chiefly as means of buying support , whether on earth or in heaven , and were viewing them instead as permanent assets , to be cultivated in a more business-like fashion . |
| 21 | Smith ( 1960 ) has shown how images of the Pacific islanders were manipulated in these two directions , and Mitter ( 1977 ) has traced the varied history or European interpretations of Hindu sacred statuary , from viewing them initially as images of the devil , to finally incorporating them as works of art . |
| 22 | Was he perhaps viewing them hallucinatorily as fellow Lordly Phantasms about to behold a fight between mind-slaves , between living puppets operated by the spectators ? |
| 23 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 24 | No I thought you was you were reading them off as you |
| 25 | Whereas rejection of Soviet dominance had been seen as an element in the poor support for communists and ex-communists elsewhere , the Economist of June 16 suggested that Bulgarians were comparatively well disposed to Russians , regarding them historically as " Slav brothers who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878 " . |
| 26 | There are only minor things erm , Chris suggested changes to the procedures , just tidying them up as we might have expected at this stage really erm . |
| 27 | There were meadow browns , small skippers , and even painted ladies flitting among the tall flowering grasses on the canal bank , bending them over as they settled , knocking off the pollen in puffs of fine , yellow mist . |
| 28 | You may have seen one or two before , but I make no excuse for showing them again as on the last occasion they did not come out very well . |
| 29 | Ms Dimpfel says almost all the major hardware manufacturers are getting copies of the beta Workplace OS and that IBM is garnering a lot of interest from those that have built their businesses on proprietary , vertical-market operating systems and are interested in putting them up as personalities on a microkernel — such as Workplace OS — that could gain wide industry support . |
| 30 | Ms Dimpfel says almost all the major hardware manufacturers are getting copies of the beta Workplace OS and that IBM is garnering a lot of interest from those that have built their businesses on proprietary , vertical-market operating systems and are interested in putting them up as personalities on a microkernel — such as Workplace OS — that could gain wide industry support . |