Example sentences of "as [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 2 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 3 | AS befitted an industrial training awards evening the ballroom of the Marton Country Club was decked out with glittery disco balls and flashing coloured lights . |
| 4 | This was good ; what was even better — and the more remarkable , given that the gentleman was French — was that he would do so in the proper manner : with little apparent effort on his part , with a negligent modesty , as befitted an English gentleman . |
| 5 | ‘ He will be called by his surname at his public school , ’ said Lewis , who though poor had grand ideas , as befitted the future owner of Wyvis Hall and its acres . |
| 6 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 7 | The tables would be clothed with white cloths and fine cutlery , as befitted the prime dishes which would be prepared in the central kitchen . |
| 8 | The Markt was bathed in spring sunshine , and everywhere looked so clean and pristine as befitted the fine morning . |
| 9 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
| 10 | Does he further agree that it is sheer hypocrisy to oppose privatisation in principle and to promise more nationalisation , yet to claim that there will still be privatisation proceeds to spend , as did a Labour Front-Bench Treasury spokesperson this morning ? |
| 11 | Her baby and the parish , like water flooding slowly across low-lying land , began to claim her , as did a new and unwelcome preoccupation with money . |
| 12 | This is because MouseMan Cordless has its roller ball sited further forward , virtually under one 's forefinger and it took a bit of time getting used to , as did a small but perceptible response lag . |
| 13 | Its accelerated transfer of four Iroquois helicopters to the PNG Defence Force in mid-1989 represented a major contribution to the government 's campaign against the BRA , as did a subsequent major shipment of small arms and ammunition . |
| 14 | Some 30 Conservatives abstained , as did a significant number of Labour backbenchers . |
| 15 | A few terraced streets alongside a mill evoked as much community loyalty as did an ancient village . |
| 16 | Belgium , Germany and Spain supported the text , as did the European Commission . |
| 17 | We believe , as did the Ancient Greeks who originated the word ‘ aristocracy ’ , that every man with the right attitude and talents , regardless of birth or riches , has a capacity of reaching … that status in its true sense . ’ |
| 18 | I deserted the play , as did the other actors on stage , and leapt into the audience . |
| 19 | Geisler advised Mitchum against accepting the invitation , as did the other defendants ' lawyers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The propulsive string motif of Jacksons , Monk and Rowe solicited warm applause as did the political recriminations of This Sad Burlesque . |
| 23 | Other reported and/or diagnosed gynaecological ailments varied little with parity , as did the mean diastolic blood pressure . |
| 24 | While they were being asked to trim investment , the Government 's own policies were creating additional needs for investment in electricity distribution : airfields and other new defence installations for the Korean mobilisation , for example , required new electricity mains , as did the new housing estates which were a vital part of Labour 's drive for electoral popularity . |
| 25 | There might even be a piano in the working-class parlour hinting at ‘ affluence ’ , and the bicycle boom of the 1890s enlarged the mobility of many people — as did the new transport system of the tram . |
| 26 | It continues , ‘ Had Mapplethorpe devoted part of his life to a celebration , not of sado-masochism but , say , Nazism — as did the talented German film-maker Leni Riefenstahl in the Thirties — it is hard to believe he would have found many advocates in the art establishment ’ . |
| 27 | It had experienced air pollution as a problem solved , not a new one as did the rural foresters in West Germany and Sweden . |
| 28 | Papal encyclicals came to be consulted by this route , as did the current treatises of Ius Publicun on church — state relations . |
| 29 | But then just looking at Luke actually hurt her , as did the mere sound of his voice , over and above the contemptuous content of what he said . |
| 30 | The Ulster Workers ' Council joined as did the remaining paramilitary organisations . |