Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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1 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
2 | If that view is correct , as I take it to be , then the non-use of gas is one area in which the laws-of-war approach on the one hand , and the deterrence approach on the other , may have complemented each other . |
3 | And so on , as I get her to the bedroom and changed again and into bed . |
4 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
5 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
6 | She did n't flinch as I expected her to . |
7 | " I want to please you and you 're not a bit as I expected you to be . " |
8 | She seemed more beautiful than ever , and her manner to me was very pleasant , as I took her to the house in London where Miss Havisham had arranged for her to stay . |
9 | ‘ As I know myself to be entirely English … ’ she told Parliament in March 1702 , three days after her accession , ‘ there is not one thing you can expect or desire of me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness or prosperity of England . ’ |
10 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
11 | Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes . |
12 | The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door . |
13 | The first cone was melted to a puddle , the second was bending in obeisance to the blaze — as I felt myself to be , stooped there before the kiln , wanting to gaze and gaze , but the vision was barely supportable . |
14 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
15 | So this song sort of sprang to mind and I could hear it as I wanted it to be and I could also hear a few little modifications that would suit their purposes , too . |
16 | I try to take my youngsters to lots of little shows as soon as I consider them to be ‘ safe ’ . |
17 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
18 | So it 's not the six thousand figure , that that 's not really relevant as I see it to the debate about the forecast because that was simply a partial opening the bypass . |
19 | And for a person in a somewhat delicate emotional condition , as I believe myself to be , this is hard to contemplate . |
20 | If that is , as I believe it to be , the correct approach , then it does not appear to have been adopted by Thorpe J. in the present case . |
21 | However , I have excluded this idea as I believe it to be too far fetched . |
22 | ‘ I have a part interest , about to become sole if negotiations continue as I expect them to , in a tiny Portuguese-language radio station in Macau . |
23 | What you then do make a note of that all that , as I read it to you what you then do is to put your solution into that container you have to otherwise it comes out the ends ! |
24 | My subterfuge was a visit to the Rotary — but the only rotary aspect of that day was the circle my buttocks described as I thrust you to orgiastic multiplicities . |
25 | As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions . |
26 | As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me . |
27 | ‘ I left him feeling uneasy , ’ John reported back to Nora , ‘ as you asked me to . |
28 | I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’ |
29 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
30 | And after a day as peaceful or energetic as you wanted it to be , there 's an evening of good company and good food to enjoy . |