Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry brooded , frowning terribly as he toyed with his knife . |
| 2 | Bees normally use microbes to ferment food proteins , much as we deal with cheese or yoghurt . |
| 3 | Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation . |
| 4 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 5 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 6 | Snooker frames with Julian last about twice as long as they do with anybody else . |
| 7 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |
| 8 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 9 | ‘ Heightened expectation on the part of supporters is understandable and tolerable so long as it comes with a sense of realism . |
| 10 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 11 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 12 | who turn away as he comes with smiles , |
| 13 | I have never experienced an aggressive or bullying rasbora of any species , and they mix well in the peaceful community aquarium , swimming alongside companions from the other side of the world as easily as they integrate with their natural South East Asian cohabitants . |
| 14 | It must be stressed that after a certain time has elapsed , individuals will interact with the researcher just as they will with anyone else , notwithstanding the possible inhibiting effect of recording equipment . |
| 15 | Eventually the price of such devices will fall and PostScript recorders will become the norm — just as they have with typesetting . |
| 16 | They 'll move him to some safe house just as they did with Hess . ’ |
| 17 | They are choosing to ignore it , just as they did with the poll tax . |
| 18 | So they traded them just as we traded with the wool and we 're talking twelfth century thirteenth century , fourteenth century . |
| 19 | The Americans do it much better having Thanksgiving to space it out so they only have a month of Christmas though they do seem to let their elections creep back just as we do with football … ’ |
| 20 | And you , she thought , are playing with me , just as you played with me in France . |
| 21 | I feel you should have maybe said , ‘ Yes , Eric , okay , that 's really relevant , ’ and then edited the comment out just as you did with the rest of my letter . |
| 22 | You will find this card a real boon anywhere in Europe because it allows you to pay for goods and services with eurocheques , just as you do with ordinary cheques at home . |
| 23 | Just as he had with Ann , Tommy had taken over at Christopher 's . |
| 24 | That was the frightening part , losing control , just as he had with Mary , not being able to do anything about it — not knowing when it would happen again . |
| 25 | Just as he ate with relish in the three-star Auberge de lI 'll or a Greek working-man 's café , so he could be both careless and dandified about his clothes . |
| 26 | Just as he moved with grace , strength and love among men and women , so the Christian under the cross and the Church under the cross will have an effective , attractive and powerful ministry if we show his grace and live in his strength . |
| 27 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 28 | Katya went crazy over it before it had broken into leaf , just as she did with catmint . |
| 29 | She learned among many other things that Felicity had known Peter 's first wife quite well and admired her desperately as she struggled with her increasing disability and urged her husband to live as freely as he could . |
| 30 | Not to worry ; the welcome and conversation soon takes over as you mix with the whole village : small kids , their little old grannies , Lappish reindeer herdsmen and the odd Swedish blonde . |