Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're gon na paint them exactly as you would if you were just doing it on paper alright ? |
| 2 | We shall not discuss them here as they can be overcome . |
| 3 | You must do it tonight as they 're taking you away tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | Paulus could sense it too as she moved in for the kill to claim a 2-6 , 6-4 , 6-3 victory . |
| 5 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 6 | He did not see her precisely as she saw herself but it could have been very much worse . |
| 7 | With resignation she felt the colour steal into her face , and knew he would n't believe her even as she tried to explain that she had n't even seen the rings but had been absorbed by the ornaments . |
| 8 | He knew she was getting at him — imagine a man like Marc Vila admitting to being foolish ever ! — but if she kept calm like this she could undermine him just as he had tried to undermine her . |
| 9 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 10 | I do n't think it 's possible to try and keep it exactly as it used to be , nor do I think you 'd want to . |
| 11 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 12 | If they are a member of the public in a road accident case , then you could just approach them direct as you would any other witness . |
| 13 | He did not join her immediately as she 'd half expected , but sat down beside her . |
| 14 | You can then either hem and gather it with shirring tape before it is fixed to the walls ; or let it gather itself naturally as you push the rods through the turned-over hems at top and bottom . |
| 15 | Does it rebuild it exactly as it was ? |
| 16 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 17 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 18 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 19 | He therefore earnestly begs of me that since you deservedly have the nomination of an Gardner to the Chelsea Garden , which I understand is now vacant , that I would address you in his behalf that at least you would accept of him as an Candidate if there are other competitors and , if found sufficiently qualifyd you would propose him accordingly as you shall find he deserves . |
| 20 | And he besought his mother that she would love her even as she loved him himself , and that she would do good to her and show her great honour , for which he should ever serve her with the better good will . |
| 21 | She would accept it just as she accepted her heartbeat and her pulses . |