Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] as [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 And how can you bring this positive word into the examples you gave as answers to question three ?
2 When the group failed to contact their fighter escort , they turned as planned to bomb the secondary target , the docks at Kiel .
3 She could have argued that if they went as planned to farm in another country , nobody would know about her past .
4 Generally , they did not agree with the style of campaigning witnessed on several major campuses , which they viewed as attempts to copy the ‘ bourgeois ’ elections of capitalist countries .
5 Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life .
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