Example sentences of "they [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 2 | So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another . |
| 3 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
| 4 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 5 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 6 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 7 | We have bread and bacon and butter that 's good , With oatmeal and salt that is wholesome for food ; We have soap and candles whereby to give light That you may work by them so long as you have light . |
| 8 | They really do n't care where they send them so long as call up up Edingley Hill what |
| 9 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 10 | Had d'Arquebus 's dance in some fashion drawn them together unwittingly as they concentrated on him , on his bizarre behaviour ? |
| 11 | If you want potatoes with your meal , cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips . |
| 12 | JustText can read text files from any word processor , it even tidies them up slightly as it does it , and there is a utility to read MacWrite files but within limits . |
| 13 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 14 | Circulate them as widely as possible . |
| 15 | The cost of developing new innovative products is extremely high ; companies must be able to defray the high front-end cost associated with translating inventions into commercially successful products by marketing them as widely as possible around the world . |
| 16 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 17 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 18 | I resolved to explain the situation to them as briefly as possible , make a plea for money and then very rapidly leave . |
| 19 | Father Kleinsorge told them as cheerfully as he could , ‘ There 's a doctor at the entrance to the park . |
| 20 | Gollum explains them as materialistically as possible . |
| 21 | try following them as closely as possible almost touching their tail . |
| 22 | Alcoholics Anonymous ( who should know ) in their Pamphlet " Are you an alcoholic ? " say that a Positive answer to any four of the following questions indicates cause for concern : To answer this question ( " Are you an alcoholic ? " ) ask yourself the following questioned and answer them as honestly as you can . |
| 23 | There have been improvements here and there in the East European countries , but generally speaking they distribute sulphur dioxide to their own fields and cities and to the countries downwind of them as liberally as they ever did . |
| 24 | She always mentions them in her winner 's speech but maybe the players taking part should take a moment to think what makes it possible for them to perform , and maybe say ‘ thank you ’ for all the years of loyalty from these people , instead of getting away from them as fast as they can . |
| 25 | The brewers of these beers want to produce them as fast as possible and use chemical additives to speed up fermentation , cut down on yeast head to get more liquid into the fermenters and to produce a beer with a thick head of foam . |
| 26 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 27 | Put on my mettle , I told them as simply as I could of how Tony , Poll and Doreen had made their ‘ Feast ’ , burying their doll ( I substituted doll for scouter ) and covering the mound with flowers ; and how , at the end , as a simple token of courtesy or affection , Tony had presented his penis for Doreen 's pleasure . |
| 28 | Museums catalogue them as carefully as paintings . |
| 29 | Provided that they have done so , and that the child has been matched with them as carefully as possible so that they can best meet his or her needs , their situation is likely to be no different from that of any other family with teenagers . |
| 30 | Think about the shape of the flowers that you are pressing and try to place the blotting paper on top of them as carefully as possible to ensure that they will lie flat under the weights , because once they are permanently pressed you can not start again . |