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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was using the opportunity to denounce the British as well as the Copts , bracketing them together as Christians combining against true believers . |
| 15 | Beside Charlie on the floor was a pile of clothes from which he pulled jackets , macs and shirts before throwing them aside as unsuitable . |