Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Assad 's closest confidantes ( and Monzer al-Kassar 's brother-in-law ) , Dubah was the cartel 's principal enforcer , frequently co-opting Ahmed Jibril 's PFLP — GC , the Abu Nidal faction and other Palestinian terrorist groups to do his dirty work as well as using them routinely as part-time agents in his ‘ legitimate ’ intelligence operations . |
| 2 | M. Berton regarded him alone as capable of directing [ diriger ] the large Paris Opéra orchestra , after himself . |
| 3 | well not really because , and I think you can buy it sometimes as cheap , by the time you |
| 4 | Hence they were also called Dualists and the Church condemned them accordingly as heretical in their beliefs . |
| 5 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 8 | ‘ Some people have wanted to sack me almost as long as I remember , ’ he said . |
| 9 | She sent him a message saying she would never see him again as long as she lived . |
| 10 | Pleasure interests him only as long as its quickening of local awareness contributes to his overall awareness . |
| 11 | We used to mark her up special on the calendar ; and we took care to make a right good job of her : we took an extra lot of trouble with her shoes so we could keep her away as long as we could . |
| 12 | No , no , but yeah it was , it was awful paper , but I mean you 'd got it up as long as you do n't look too closely , it 's got it 's own , some of have |
| 13 | In 1576 , she insisted that her new Archbishop of Canterbury , Edmund Grindal , should suppress prophesyings , and when he disobeyed and challenged her right as supreme governor to decide on the matter , she suspended him from office . |
| 14 | How can people have faith in us if we hold our job to redress the grievances of those who set us here as unimportant ? |
| 15 | This policy indicated that princes were ceasing to regard their demesnes , those ragbags of rights and scattered pieces of land , chiefly as means of buying support , whether on earth or in heaven , and were viewing them instead as permanent assets , to be cultivated in a more business-like fashion . |
| 16 | Was he perhaps viewing them hallucinatorily as fellow Lordly Phantasms about to behold a fight between mind-slaves , between living puppets operated by the spectators ? |
| 17 | I 'll try to keep her here as long as I can if it will help . ’ |
| 18 | He thought he 'd like to see her again as long as she did n't whinge too much about sexism . |
| 19 | He viewed them universally as dismal , dirty , draughty places where unpleasant incidents frequently occurred , especially on Sundays . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll hold them here as long as we can . ’ |
| 21 | A sense of fatalism kept her still as long legs in thigh-hugging jeans were lowered on to the chair . |
| 22 | I 'll hold her off as long as I can . |
| 23 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 24 | Spread the sail and lay it flat as possible with the underside uppermost . |
| 25 | ‘ The Frogs got it wrong as usual . |
| 26 | Our hearer may even reject them outright as false . |
| 27 | In fact he became known as Tony ‘ play me anywhere as long as you play me ’ Taylor ! |
| 28 | there 's my son showing me up as usual |
| 29 | When his secretary rings , put him off as long as you decently can . |
| 30 | She knew she would probably have to say something sooner or later , but she decided she would put it off as long as she possibly could . |