Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [adj] as " in BNC.
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1 | As a result , the USA suffered a net outflow of gold in every year but one during the 1960s as pressure of the kind described by Triffin built up . |
2 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
3 | An odd thought came to each one of the four as they chewed , ; they were sharing a meal , eating meat and salt together . |
4 | It was considered bourgeois to own or rent an appartement , so the artistic community of St-Germain-des Pres lived in hotels , paying daily for their night 's — or day 's — rest , flitting from one to the next as circumstances demanded . |
5 | The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders . |
6 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
7 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |