Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 2 | Language is as old as consciousness , language is practical consciousness that exists also for other men , and for that reason alone it really exists for me personally as well ; language like consciousness , only arises from the need , the necessity of intercourse with other men . |
| 3 | Or , like he , if the little girl 's riding him , he always goes with her then as well , but even if the girl 's not on him , he takes him for a walk like a big dog so I mean , they 're lovely people , you could n't wish to have him with nicer people , erm , you know they are , they really are nice |
| 4 | Des stares at me blankly as he puts his shoe on . |
| 5 | He stares at you hard as he passes . |
| 6 | The koko serves us tea respectfully , although she smiles at me complicitly as she hands me my mug . |
| 7 | The contract is thus a " dual capacity " transaction in the strict sense and the broker enters into it both as agent for the client and as principal . |
| 8 | Such practice appears to us now as rigid , authoritarian and unimaginative . |
| 9 | The nation refers to itself not as " this sovereign land of ours " , as do other countries , but to " this , our land-and-water " — and considerable ritual effort is devoted to maintaining a balance between the two . |
| 10 | President Mobutu 's face nods on her behind as she pounds plantain in an ebony mortar and then slices the yellow dough with cotton thread . |
| 11 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |