Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling very daring , I would sit in a circle with them on the grass in Powis Square , and pretend to drink deeply as the cider or barley wine bottle passed around . |
| 2 | Some boroughs — including the two named — are notoriously bad at collecting rents , and London arrears have soared already as the tighter benefit rules have taken effect . |
| 3 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 4 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 5 | These handicaps have increased steadily as the EC becomes more supranational . |
| 6 | An unquizzical synthesis of the fabliaux " explicit morals produces at best an alternative moral scheme to that which was conventional in the Christian Middle Ages — and is still , largely , conventional today ; a scheme that various critics have described either as the morality of efficacy , the liberation of the instinct , a morality of pleasure , hedonistic materialism , or pragmatic warnings of the need to avoid deception and the promise or threat of retributive justice . |