Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 2 | And the undulants displayed a conspicuous electric field whenever they moved ; she 'd felt it as static whenever they touched-her . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , a tiny smile did play round his features when he introduced bras and kets and one had the feeling that this little joke had given him as much pleasure as anything . |
| 4 | That idea had occurred to Lisa , but she had discarded it as unthinkable . |
| 5 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 6 | Pippin 's grievances had , unsurprisingly , nothing to do with Alemannia but a lot to do with his father 's interference in and around Aquitaine which had once , of course , been Louis 's own realm ( he had ruled it as sub-king from 781 to 814 ) . |
| 7 | Merlyn Rees , Gregor Mackenzie and John Cunningham , all of whom were friends who had served me as Parliamentary Private Secretaries , rallied at once and with Tom McNally , my Political Adviser , formed a small inner team to conduct the contest on my behalf . |
| 8 | Topaz had pictured her as tall and brawny as befitted a martinet . |
| 9 | Thomas and Lansbury , however , lacked both imagination and thrust ; and Mosley , who did produce a Keynesian scheme of public works , resigned after the Cabinet had rejected it as impracticable . |
| 10 | Her own strong and unthinking rejection of him had shocked her as much as it had shocked him . |
| 11 | Bursting into her life with a devastating charm , he had undermined her defences with skill , until she had faced him as defenceless as a de-shelled crab , and he had destroyed her illusions with the cruel indifference of a natural predator . |
| 12 | Nigel had loved it as much as I , but it was n't ‘ efficient ’ . |
| 13 | Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant , and by all accounts it was ; rejection hurt . |
| 14 | While condemning the Soviet coup , Marchais had described it as understandable in view of the failure of perestroika . |
| 15 | This thought had crossed Robyn 's mind before , but she had suppressed it as ignoble . |