Example sentences of "as [verb] the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us are reserved good listeners who see our prime function in conversation as encouraging the other person . |
| 2 | If the traffic in emigrants was almost totally from the British Isles to America , the exchange in religious influences has often been seen as going the other way , from America to Britain . |
| 3 | AS Sarah 's mother , Susan Barrantes , was quoted as saying the other day , Andrew behaved like a wimp . |
| 4 | Nearby , in the south , is a sink that also connects , as do the other openings , with the Great Douk Cave system . |
| 5 | They also , as do the other groups , regularly perform in the hotels and some typical restaurants in the island . |
| 6 | Pembroke 's execution , on Warwick 's orders , has the air of a private act of revenge , as do the other executions which followed Edgecote . |
| 7 | Pembroke 's execution , on Warwick 's orders , has the air of a private act of revenge , as do the other executions which followed Edgecote . |
| 8 | Of course , this could apply to the Mistress or to the poet , but in its absence of relationship it stands apart , as do the other sonnets of this type , as general observations on phases of human love , common at certain times to all men and women . |
| 9 | I deserted the play , as did the other actors on stage , and leapt into the audience . |
| 10 | They also liked it — as did the other villages — for the spiteful inter-village competitiveness that lay under the seemingly innocent accounts of the Snead Women 's Institute going on an Easter outing to Weston-super-Mare , while the Quindale branch could only muster a local dried-flower expert whose crisp and solid arrangements , adorned with bows of florist 's ribbon , they could all have recognized in their sleep . |
| 11 | The settlement connects with other forms of extension in that it did have an educational aim , but , like Oxford House ( another settlement or " mission " set up in the East End in 1884 ) , it usefully illustrates new initiatives for the renewal of forms of leadership and patterns for social administration upon which the elevation of English largely depended , Barnett saw Toynbee Hall as the potential centre for an east London university ; in fact it became , as did the other settlements and extension classes , a centre for members of the middle class . |
| 12 | Geisler advised Mitchum against accepting the invitation , as did the other defendants ' lawyers . |