Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House . |
| 2 | Those who believe that the growth of planned economy brings with it the possibility ( on the narrow basis of the dying out of the law of value ) of acting just as one pleases , do not understand the ABC of economic science . |
| 3 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 4 | I think the art of moving around as I have done in my career into different products and functions and into various industries is the ability to sum up quickly your close colleagues . |
| 5 | Why do you allow her to continue with all this humbug of taking over as your hostess when you know she will never do so ? ’ |
| 6 | He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult . |
| 7 | But growing up and learning how she ought to feel and behave , what she ought to value , means that she has to give up doing just as she pleases . |
| 8 | ‘ Do — do you condemn her too , mademoiselle , for running away as she did ? ’ |
| 9 | HERO pilot Dane Crosby coolly saved the crew of his rescue helicopter from drowning yesterday as he ditched in raging seas . |
| 10 | This is as much to keep other things from crowding in as it is to ensure that we pay attention to all that matters . |
| 11 | Severini , who had signed the manifestos but was not exhibiting , had come to Milan to ask Marinetti for financial assistance , and he advised that the Italian painters should visit Paris before exhibiting there as they intended . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure Adam will have no difficulty in doing exactly as he pleases , which at the moment happens to be attending to his guests . ’ |
| 13 | Push slivers of Flora margarine under the skin so that the flesh is prevented from drying out as it cooks . |
| 14 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 15 | ‘ Do you ever see that brother of yours at all ? ’ he asked without looking up as he finished , drawing his chair roughly back from the table . |
| 16 | He nodded without looking up as she placed it on the counter . |
| 17 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 18 | For an agonising moment Shannon felt herself losing control , overwhelmed by an urge to fly at Marianne , to assuage her own brutal torment by lashing out as she had done long ago in the school playground , when the jeers and mockery became too much to bear . |
| 19 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 20 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |
| 21 | On his return he puzzled me by behaving exactly as I expected an S.S.O. to behave . |
| 22 | Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’ |