Example sentences of "[to-vb] as [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What enchants you in particular ? ’ he wanted to know as he downed some of his coffee . |
| 2 | These tend to disappear as we grow older but occasionally persist into adulthood . |
| 3 | Christian Dior 's Icône , for instance , aims to tackle ‘ cutaneous dryness ’ — that unpleasant combination of tightness and ashiness which tends to appear as we get older . |
| 4 | Before long what has been described aptly by one penologist as a malfunction began to appear as it became evident that suspended sentences of imprisonment were being used in place of non-custodial penalties , especially probation orders and fines . |
| 5 | The verb to love is difficult to define as it covers such a range of emotion . |
| 6 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 7 | Firstly , fibre-rich foods are more filling and thus satisfying , though of course they take more work to consume as they require more chewing . |
| 8 | The ‘ clean feed ’ from the House , and the material filmed in committees , are all available for the broadcasters to use as they think fit . |
| 9 | Except that my anger less controls me , but becomes more an energetic response to injustice that I choose to use as I see fit . |
| 10 | When a member of parliament was considered to be in a position to influence senior officers ' careers , he might , however , find himself offered minor patronage posts to use as he saw fit , without having to do much to seek them . |
| 11 | Two of them carried a big straw basket between them , which they hoped to fill as they visited all the houses in the village . |
| 12 | I mean , only because others attempted to compel me to do as they thought fit in the matter of matrimony . ’ |
| 13 | You 've your job to do as you see fit . ’ |
| 14 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 15 | Thereafter , all attack movements , including complicated footwork patterns , are in the hands of the student himself , to interpret as he sees fit . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll just give you the overall concept of the thing , and it 's up to you how to interpret as you see fit . ’ |
| 17 | Duncan enjoyed the moment of take-off , that split second when the bird starts to fly as it comes free of the land . |
| 18 | It seems likely that this large response was assisted by the Sole Practitioners Group ( organised by Arnold Rosen ) , who provided sole practitioners with a pro forma set of answers to the questions posed in the consultative paper which they were then invited to amend as they saw fit . |
| 19 | His heart will have started to race as he looked left and right and saw the two main practice strips . |
| 20 | He was willing to submit these terms to arbitrators to vary as they thought fit , but only on condition that he was to retain full power and jurisdiction . |
| 21 | England , America … that sort of freedom of travelling , with only your own whim to consult , tends to dissipate as you get older . |
| 22 | According to this interpretation , the associability of each stimulus element might be expected to decline as it becomes associated with others , just as a CS as a whole is thought to lose associability as it becomes linked with a US . |
| 23 | The lighter work to which men tended to shift as they got older was generally worse paid . |
| 24 | The whiskers generally began life as exceedingly fine filaments which could be seen to thicken as they got older . |
| 25 | The rope was once again attached to a tree and then to the saddle of Felipe 's horse , and Maggie lay back on the cliff-top to watch as he made another dangerous trip over the edge . |
| 26 | The level of water in a feed-and-expansion cistern should be low enough to allow the water to expand as it gets hot without overflowing . |
| 27 | The lazy among us will always claim that it is more difficult to learn as you get older . |
| 28 | A trumpet solo followed midway through the second half but St Johnstone failed to rally as they lost two more goals without reply . |
| 29 | The new pattern that will gradually take shape towards the end of this century is of a centrally determined national curriculum , individual schools being given their own budgets to spend as they think fit within the legally required curriculum framework . |
| 30 | Whatever the answer , Philip will meet you at Strata Marcella when he comes from Isambard , and if the man will not come to terms , then it 's for you to act as you think fit . ’ |