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 .
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