Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said .
2 ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said .
3 so that they , they 're getting something back as well as
4 Well er we 're running something else as well at the same time so .
5 ‘ It 's the price that has been pulling them out as well as the thought of missing out on some paperwork .
6 Kendall stormed : ‘ The players are letting themselves down as well as everyone connected with this club .
7 But it can affect the way the rig interacts and I 'm pointing it out as it relates to all rack systems , not just those based upon a JMP-1 .
8 I 'll be taking her back as soon as she 's well . ’
9 The band was tight , but everyone else had seemed to be making it up as they went along .
10 The agency will be assessing you just as one of its clients will do .
11 I think one part of it might be rented out , but not the shop , but I think he might be renting them out as well
12 She said you were using me just as she had been used .
13 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 .
14 they were having one here as well and erm they booked it for the day and they were staying there overnight , cos they were , they 've got a house and they were gon na let guests stay at their house and while they stayed up there and then
15 No I thought you was you were reading them off as you
16 You were watching me steadily as I talked , listening , not saying very much .
17 We were working one short as well .
18 Overall , the most fruitful way to examine the interaction of courts , executives and assemblies is to see them all as engaged in a continuous process by which the law and rights are constantly being defined and redefined .
19 He likes Basingstoke and as the youngest member of the cast of 16 , he is enjoying himself immensely as Young Charlie in Little Tramp — he reckons it is the best show he 's been in .
20 ‘ Oh , so he 's charmed you now as well , has he ? ’ said her father .
21 There are other signs that the club is stirring itself commercially as it responds to the needs of its growing membership .
22 One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) .
23 He was leading one out as she reached him and he never stopped .
24 She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather .
25 As the months passed , it became clear to me , however , that he was doing something else as well . ’
26 She was rocking him gently as he fed and gazing in abstraction at the far corner of the room .
27 The music was carrying her away as his fingers laced her hair .
28 I was making it up as I went along .
29 She was aware that she was making it up as she went along but she certainly did n't want to repeat what Richie had actually said .
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