Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt towards her religion as she imagined some women felt towards their dreary , loveless marriages : something trying , but inescapable ; cluttered with apparently futile chores , yet from which there was no question of escaping . |
| 2 | Then Julius reduced speed as they approached another small village . |
| 3 | To satisfy the US Senate article 5 was so phrased as to enable each state to respond to aggression only with " such action as it deems necessary , including the use of armed force " . |
| 4 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 5 | Nurses were instructed to prevent them from seeing Earl Spencer as he lay helpless in his private room . |
| 6 | And I doubt that this time around Arab public opinion will separate the action of Western governments so clearly from Western peoples as they seemed able to do after Suez . |
| 7 | Nor would snatched snaps of us going home in our car that evening have revealed any particular closeness as my passionate tirade about his behaviour fell on deaf or rather sleeping ears as he lay comatose in the passenger seat . |
| 8 | I think the best way to proceed will be for you to produce as many captions as you think fit and we can then select from these during editing . |
| 9 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 10 | She actively watches the lines made by her arms and legs as they form varying shapes . |
| 11 | Summertime Kirchberg echoes to the splash of children in water , laughter on the tennis courts and the exclamations of walkers as they discover another tranquil vista . |
| 12 | OF GBW topped the honours in the finals of the London Breweries Squash contest as he took top spot in the veterans event . |
| 13 | But the practical necessities of treating patients remained , so the majority of physicians continued to use as many of the available remedies as they thought necessary , relying on their personal experience , the opinions of colleagues , and the reports of such trials as they had time to study . |
| 14 | Even at this stage conciliation is encouraged and the EAT is enabled to take such steps as it thinks fit to enable the parties to avail themselves of the opportunity for conciliation . |
| 15 | Austrian hat manufacturers wept with emotion as they offered untold wealth for a single specimen . |
| 16 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 17 | This problem was one that was confronting the brothers as they sat one late night at Rafferty 's after everyone had gone . |
| 18 | ’ We pray quite frequently , ‘ Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us . ’ |
| 19 | She closed her eyes as we did this as if she could not bear the spectacle of herself , a helpless , groaning hulk , being rolled about the bed . |
| 20 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 21 | Ma is trying to apologise for it with her eyes as she sucks khaki splodges from the sleeve of her cardigan . |
| 22 | Tears clouded her eyes as she remembered those dark days , but she blinked them away . |
| 23 | The faintest hint of amusement glimmered in his obsidian eyes as he raised one jet-black eyebrow . |
| 24 | Corbett went over and examined the bodies , wiping the sweat from his eyes as he turned each of the corpses over . |
| 25 | RESCUERS last night told how they coaxed a man out of a suicide bid as he drifted half a mile out to sea in a child 's dinghy . |
| 26 | Taking no notice of her breathless protest , he barely halted his stride as he kicked open the bedroom door . |
| 27 | The two girls , travelling together in the back of a car as it passed close by the explosion in St Mary Axe on Friday night , are being treated for facial and eye injuries in neighbouring beds at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 28 | Yet he 'd been incredibly gentle after she 'd hit him , and it was Leo 's face in her mind as she fell asleep , not Ryan 's . |
| 29 | And weigh those matters up in your mind as you hear one evidence after the other . |
| 30 | Will he bear that in mind as he considers further recruitment for the TAVR in Northern Ireland ? |