Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has since gone on as librarian and as professor of art history to write standard books on eleventh-century illumination in Normandy , Flemish illumination in the 1480s , Italian illumination of the Renaissance , insular illumination from the sixth century , English illumination of the thirteenth century , and many other far-ranging studies and catalogues and exhibitions . |
| 2 | TOP MARKS : Whatever financial advice Johnny 's been giving Fergie has obviously paid off as the Duchess shows that she 's well and truly on top of the subject |
| 3 | The mother has made a phone call to the hospital asking after her daughter 's safety but she has not called back as promised . |
| 4 | I believe there are several thousand States in Ireland now and I see the sense of locality that has always dominated here as basically a time-serving National identity . |
| 5 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 6 | Assuming she has lived in the house for her whole period of ownership and has never nominated elsewhere as main residence there is no question of a CGT liability when she sells . |
| 7 | People who fall into this habit often have a weak sense of identity and have felt very taken over as children , not allowed their own thoughts and feelings , nor to be themselves . |
| 8 | New content and emphasis is to be found in all subjects of the syllabus but radical changes ( most of them very typical of other syllabuses of the time ) included : earlier and more intensive teaching of English , the teaching of more Mathematics earlier ( and less computational arithmetic ) , the localisation of History and Civics syllabuses ( but with world affairs added in the upper classes ) , the introduction of a Science syllabus , with considerable time weighing , based on an ‘ experimental approach ’ and intended to integrate contents and approaches originally taught separately as Nature Study , Rural Science , General Science , Health Education and Gardening , and a revised , expanded , and considerably more africanised Music syllabus . |
| 9 | Yeah but I get really pissed off as well cos I well I , I wo n't like when I 'm with other people like and I talk about other pe like when I talk about Jenny and then I feel sort of like really two faced when I like start talking to Jenny and stuff . |
| 10 | At the other extreme , the parties may have expressly agreed only as to which goods were being sold and how much the price was . |
| 11 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 12 | This , allied to the respect and admiration he had already gained here as captain of our 1977 promotion team and as a member of the full Welsh International side , established an empathy between Ian and the fans which made him part of the folk-lore of Crystal Palace Football Club . |
| 13 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 14 | He could not help wondering why a rousing cheer had not gone up as soon as the garrison had spotted his red uniform . |
| 15 | I had not worked before as a waitress so I ended up with most of the easy jobs like washing up and cleaning left overs from the plates ! |
| 16 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 17 | ‘ I would have been interested in Porter if Michael had not come through as he has , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The Allied guns had just started up as I entered the orchard . |
| 19 | Traffic flows generally speeded up as highway improvements were carried out and congestion spots , often alleged to be caused by fixed-track trams , were removed . |
| 20 | It would explain why the crew were not present … had possibly jumped overboard as mental disintegration deepened . ’ |
| 21 | No movie that ran in his head had ever worked out as this one did . |
| 22 | Robbie knew that there were two younger boys in her friend 's new family , Angus and Anthony , whom Caro had once described scornfully as being ‘ disgusting little objects who left uneaten pizzas to go mouldy under their beds ’ . |
| 23 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 24 | The most common complaint , however , was that the projects were n't working ; results had n't turned out as hoped , essential equipment had proved faulty ( or in some eases had n't arrived ) and students were left writing up why their project had n't worked out . |
| 25 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 26 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 27 | Well I think er yeah I definitely have to agree with you that we 're not hearing enough of them but I suppose more and more now people are starting to record you know a little bit more of the older stuff and I think what 's happened on the pop scene that they 've absolutely dried up as regards er creating new music you know and people are going into computerized music now and you know everything is played on the one machine and it 's getting like a er I do n't know it 's as as if you do n't really have to be a musician any more . |
| 28 | Pardy had certainly behaved recklessly as the law understood that term . |
| 29 | It could also explain why the goats have not increased there as they so often have on other islands . |
| 30 | We know today that things have not worked out as Huey hoped . |