Example sentences of "[prep] them as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need to speak to Governor Nicholson about them as soon as possible , do you understand ? ’ |
| 2 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 3 | Ataturk was able to control the mullahs and to find a place for them as well as for merchants and intellectuals in the new Turkey . |
| 4 | Nithard wrote of what he and his companions had suffered ; and he wrote for them as well as for Charles — significant evidence for Charles 's own constituency . |
| 5 | But when the great general of the Civil War , Oliver Cromwell , lost his temper with the Rump Parliament for trying to monopolize power , and made himself supreme instead , he regretted this war between Protestant countries and set out to make peace between them as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Cautiously , the Doctor approached the central circle of pillars , slipping between them as quietly as possible , despite the fact that there was no one around . |
| 7 | • Several tasks are required to be performed simultaneously and the subject is required to distribute his time between them as efficiently as possible . |
| 8 | We can not ignore , therefore , the possibility of our oil tax revenues running out or reducing , and it is important to find ways of becoming independent of them as soon as possible . |
| 9 | So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible . |
| 10 | There have been improvements here and there in the East European countries , but generally speaking they distribute sulphur dioxide to their own fields and cities and to the countries downwind of them as liberally as they ever did . |
| 11 | Think about the shape of the flowers that you are pressing and try to place the blotting paper on top of them as carefully as possible to ensure that they will lie flat under the weights , because once they are permanently pressed you can not start again . |
| 12 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 13 | I began several diaries , carrying on the entries in some of them as far as February . |
| 14 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
| 15 | All of them as far as paragraph B is concerned it deals with the reduction in local government responsibilities and the growth of non-elected bodies . |
| 16 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 17 | In some cases it can be difficult or even impossible to find texts again ( for example if the text is a lecture , or a television programme ) , but you should still keep details of them as fully as possible , so that your reader knows exactly where ideas or words come from . |
| 18 | There had been so much else to do : such as leaving a brief note for Julie , and also contacting her office to explain the problem and that she 'd be in touch with them as soon as possible . |
| 19 | Provided that they have done so , and that the child has been matched with them as carefully as possible so that they can best meet his or her needs , their situation is likely to be no different from that of any other family with teenagers . |
| 20 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 21 | Only hummingbirds with curved bills can drink from them and their beaks fit into them as accurately as a curved dagger sliding into its scabbard . |
| 22 | There were a few cars parked , but none with anyone in them as far as I could see . |
| 23 | She always mentions them in her winner 's speech but maybe the players taking part should take a moment to think what makes it possible for them to perform , and maybe say ‘ thank you ’ for all the years of loyalty from these people , instead of getting away from them as fast as they can . |
| 24 | These she kept in an ivory box , and the gods ate from them as often as they wished to renew their youth . |
| 25 | I resolved to explain the situation to them as briefly as possible , make a plea for money and then very rapidly leave . |
| 26 | Good sailing centres will have at least one and certainly the R Y A ones do and they 're important because if beginners get into difficulties out on the water you need to be able to get to them as quickly as possible and it also gives them a sense of security to have one of these things around . |
| 27 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 28 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 29 | With a shout , I ran at them as hard as I could . |
| 30 | I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go . |