Example sentences of "[noun] to [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I have emotional ties to it exactly as it is regardless of the extra voters . ’ |
2 | And so he hugged his loneliness to himself even as he bemoaned it . |
3 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
4 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
5 | I should like to reiterate those comments to you now as I believe they remain relevant : 1 ) Control the duration of play by an ice hockey-type clock to prevent time-wasting. 2 ) Players to have their names on the back of their shirts . |
6 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
7 | The cottage , their belongings , were their joint life , adorned and gave reality to it just as the bushes and flowers they had planted in the garden staked out their territory of trust . |
8 | If they had given his note to her exactly as he had said … |