Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are faced with this , the only thing to do is to refuse to be drawn into any fruitless arguments , but stand firm in your resolve to leave when you feel you must , assuring her of your affection and concern for her and your intention to visit her again as soon as you can . |
| 2 | Pleasure interests him only as long as its quickening of local awareness contributes to his overall awareness . |
| 3 | It was like swimming in warm darkness , only her slender arms around his neck holding her upright as his hands caressed her body and moulded her against him . |
| 4 | His mouth touched hers lightly as she opened her lips to reply . |
| 5 | He had chosen an 8-iron to propel it forward as well as up . |
| 6 | Has this exorcism washed you away as well ? |
| 7 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 8 | Kevin Phillips ' snarl says it all as he leads the Neath tribe 's celebrations after winning the 1990 Schweppes Cup Final . |
| 9 | Labour ex-Cabinet minister Lord Healey warned : ‘ Lady Thatcher 's type of nationalism is the greatest single danger to peace in the modern world , and Mr Major 's failure to confront it head-on as such a danger has made a civil war in the government party a danger to Britain and to Europe as whole . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , there 's no need to make it sound as though I 'm a plague-carrier . |
| 11 | It can take just as much fortitude to go it alone as it does to keep up a public front . |
| 12 | Border described it all as media nonsense , saying he had , in fact , stayed behind to attend to some personal business . |
| 13 | The pursuer threw himself aside as the vehicle mounted the pavement , slamming into a lamp-post . |
| 14 | The chief magistrate watched me intently as the prosecutor , a blundering serjeant-at-law , failed to prove I had any grievance against the Ralembergs and could not proffer any motive for the crime . |
| 15 | I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage . |
| 16 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 17 | The giant palms lining the road inspected me disinterestedly as I coasted along trying to find the Alcade Apartments . |
| 18 | Hence they were also called Dualists and the Church condemned them accordingly as heretical in their beliefs . |
| 19 | However , their daily search for food takes them on journeys requiring considerable navigation skills , and their time sense helps them here as well . |
| 20 | And yesterday Labour 's rank-and-file kept him there as he won 533,000 votes in the constituency section of the election — which is decided by ballot . |
| 21 | But whereas institutions can be forced to change their behaviour — I can , for example , request that my bank address me routinely as Ms rather than Miss , in everyday encounters unregulated by institutions , matters are less clear-cut . |
| 22 | A carbonate produces something else as well . |
| 23 | Ward ( 1979 ) noted with alarm the signs of what he called ‘ Frontier man 's fright ’ whereby after working in an area for some time without apparent response from professional colleagues in related disciplines there is a tendency to desert it just as its true worth is to be recognized by others : |
| 24 | A sense of fatalism kept her still as long legs in thigh-hugging jeans were lowered on to the chair . |
| 25 | But only the occasional shafts of sunlight gave it away as it worked slowly downwards , making the most of its daily exercise . |
| 26 | erm if , if , if you , if you , if you take this view of excesses you 're not unhappy for that to happen in order to move it forward as long as you maintain the control necessary to stop it when it 's gone too far , which is exactly what he does . |
| 27 | His shocked expression said it all as she pulled away . |
| 28 | THE brown cow eyed us suspiciously as we approached . |
| 29 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 30 | Then a leaking gasket on the fuel header tank showed itself graphically as fuel was blown back into Bob 's face from the filler cap in front of the windscreen . |