Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendall stormed : ‘ The players are letting themselves down as well as everyone connected with this club . |
| 2 | Reverting from Mr Jingle to Oliver Michaels , he added , ‘ Six months have proved to me that the passions of Lions are as nothing compared with those of Lionisers . ’ |
| 3 | The job losses in United Kingdom defence industries as a result of the change of emphasis in British procurement are as nothing compared with those that would be suffered under the Labour party 's defence policy — if so dignified a term can be used for something so confused , contradictory and misleading . |
| 4 | The reservations were , however , as nothing compare with those about the proposal for an audit review panel . |
| 5 | There was an explosion of laughter as someone observed with considerable accuracy upon the nature of the disturbance , and then the servants , the offending if well-meaning steward crimson-faced at their head , were entering the room with platters and trays to serve the meal . |
| 6 | I must say I agreed with them as I agreed with some of the misgivings expressed by our German colleagues , too . |
| 7 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 8 | I do not feel competitive with Pamela as I do with other women , because Pam , in her unwitting splendour , is not pretty as other women are . |
| 9 | I 'll probably give them to my dad , as I do with most my clothes when I 've finished with them . |
| 10 | Erm first of all , as I grapple with this problem over the weekend , it did seem to me very difficult to make any sensible assessment of integration on a at a strategic level because so clearly it is a site specific matter . |
| 11 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 12 | And , ’ I went on as he tried to interrupt , ‘ so as you do n't get lost if the sun goes in , you can paint the trees as you go with luminous paint . |
| 13 | You will find this card a real boon anywhere in Europe because it allows you to pay for goods and services with eurocheques , just as you do with ordinary cheques at home . |
| 14 | As you deal with each point then tick the cross , but not before . |
| 15 | Down the pub as often as you want with all the fellers — ’ |
| 16 | As you work with more texts you can build up these specialist sluices and so create a unique resource for your own teaching situation . |
| 17 | And so this is how it ends , she thought minutes later as she walked with steady steps across the wooden planks . |
| 18 | ‘ You were — er — you were just joking earlier , on the dance-floor — were n't you ? ’ she murmured , not daring to raise her eyes as she toyed with some of the pink salmon mayonnaise on her plate . |
| 19 | Somehow she managed a smile as she said with deliberate casualness , ‘ Sounds a wonderful idea , Harry . |
| 20 | She looked up , arching a brow as she said with false sweetness , ‘ Well , is there something else , then ? ’ |
| 21 | As she struggled with Italian pronunciation , Jacqueline doubled away behind her and slid out of the shop . |
| 22 | And how deeply she wished she could feel the confidence impressed upon her voice as she added with forced lightness , ‘ Apart from any other consideration , I still have a wet dog to find . ’ |
| 23 | His arrival seemed to set the conveyor belt in motion , and she lost all track of time as she dealt with one actor after another , flinching every time the door opened , yet aware of a peculiar emptiness when Dane failed to show up . |
| 24 | But the Queen , well protected by raincoat , hat and umbrella , smiled through the deluge as she chatted with those brave enough to stay out in the open under a gaily-coloured sea of umbrellas . |
| 25 | It is true that Frances Hodgson Burnett probably also put into the character of Marco , as she did with that of Cedric Errol , something of her own feelings for her dead son Lionel . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm — not sure , ’ she answered on a whisper , as she strove with all she could find to keep her feet firmly on the ground because something too wonderful , too impossible , too impossibly wonderful was happening — was n't it ? |
| 27 | He watched the girl as she moved with quiet competence about the table wondering , as always , what , if anything , was going on behind that extraordinarily wide brow , those slanted enigmatic eyes . |
| 28 | Picture her , Tabitha Jute : not as the net media show her , heroine of hyperspace , capable , canny and cosmetically enhanced , smiling confidently as she reaches with one hand for the spangled mist of the Milky Way ; but a small , weary young woman in a cracked foil jacket and oil-stained trousers , determinedly elbowing herself through an exuberant Schiaparelli crowd . |
| 29 | The words hovered on the edge of Folly 's consciousness for the rest of the day as she plodded with increasing grimness from one unsuitable or unaffordable flat to another . |
| 30 | The difficulty arises , as we saw with professional groupings , of sub-groups existing within an organisation that do not all share the same goals or values . |