Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan followed him right through the gate as Myeloski flashed his warrant-card . |
| 2 | There is thus now an excess of supply over demand which augurs badly for the UK as its North Sea oil is relatively expensive to produce and this has put certain marginal oil fields out of production . |
| 3 | At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell . |
| 4 | Nor am I. ’ She was restless , moving uneasily about the hut as once before , curious but preoccupied , and slow to come to what had brought her on this errand . |
| 5 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 6 | Life was fraught enough for the Stevenses as it was , with the constant care of Jennifer , without her adding to their problems , and besides , she had come to value her privacy and her independence . |
| 7 | Keith insists that 's no more than any other home the same size , but he 's hoping the new buyer will care as much about the property as about the world 's threatened rain forests . |
| 8 | Ellie knew this well , although she was barely five and a half years old , because she and Patsy had talked endlessly about the problem as they sat up in their cot while their father and the ‘ broth ’ played cards below them in the living room . |
| 9 | They 'd be going up and down between the aisles as well . |
| 10 | THE DECISION of lock Simon Dear to join Quins , halfway through the season as Rosslyn Park — still without a league win this season — struggle to avoid relegation brought a strongly-worded response from Park coach Hugh McHardy : ‘ The whole thing stinks — and I 've told Simon so . |
| 11 | Finally , if he was prepared to visit Sanders to make the appointment , why not do so for the lessons as well ? ’ |
| 12 | She booked herself in for the works as she put it — a facial and full-body massage . |
| 13 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |
| 14 | Let us now place an infinite conductor plane halfway between the charges as shown in Fig. 2.32 . |
| 15 | But with him having on this side , because he 's so blooming awkward he 's been pressing the play switch and of course , so the tapes been turning round , have n't bothered to che , so you know , he was sort of saying well well play that tape and I 'll write their names down of the people as they speak , just the first names , you know so there 's loads of |
| 16 | Not only that I 've got ta fit in like the children as well . |
| 17 | ‘ Ignore the barrage balloon , ’ he joked , flattening himself exaggeratedly against the wall as the actors came out of the pass door and went up to their rooms . |
| 18 | Duclos rattled the empty champagne bottle impatiently against the table-top as he picked them up . |
| 19 | A heavily burnt in sky will blend better with the foreground as the flash will nudge those highlights along . |
| 20 | A heavily burnt in sky will blend better with the foreground as the flash will nudge those highlights along . |
| 21 | The level of demand is to do not only with the tasks as they are done but also with the duration for which they must continue to be done . |
| 22 | Rory sat up in bed , scowling fiercely into the darkness as though the object of her condemnation was sitting right in front of her . |
| 23 | Run your finger along under the words as you read , so that the child learns that reading goes from left to right . |
| 24 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
| 25 | and down with the local tyrants , it 's down with the system as it stands or |
| 26 | The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this . |
| 27 | His speed and Lachlan 's bull charge through the fight , drawing their own men after him in the vacuum of his passage , ran him and them down into the water as well . |
| 28 | Reconsider this planned essay with the introduction broken down into the parts as suggested . |
| 29 | Adhesive circles and lines are available on a reel and these are simply stuck down onto the film as required . |
| 30 | The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards . |