Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | What I can say to the honourable gentleman who I know always attends these European debates with great regularity , I 'll be only too glad to speak to him outside as well as the honourable gentleman to try and clarify these matters . |
| 32 | I do n't lie to him especially as we 've got a obviously . |
| 33 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 34 | I 'm a single parent , and I blame myself for the way he is — but I feel it 's too late to get through to him now as talking or reasoning does n't work . |
| 35 | ‘ Listen to him now as he tells us how and why he became a convert . |
| 36 | The unremitting pressure of their role in the politics and violence of Lebanon 's civil war had bonded them into a partnership that meant as much to him personally as professionally . |
| 37 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 38 | It is your land , Creggan , it is yours … ’ and she spoke to him gently as so often in the past he had spoken to her . |
| 39 | If they had given his note to her exactly as he had said … |
| 40 | A mature , non-exploitative , separated relationship between mother and daughter begins as each accepts that the other can not be perfectly available or responsive to her just as she can not be perfectly available and responsive to the other . ’ |
| 41 | She was getting quite neurotic , Harriet reflected , and the same thought occurred to her now as she checked her image in the full length mirror , tucking her camisole top more neatly in at the waist of her pants and straightening the ornamental clasp of the loose belt she had fastened around her hips . |
| 42 | The elegance of his own style , the willingness of the assistants , the feeling that an endless flow of joy emanated from this eccentric and astute little man , the jade-green charm of the suit that was eventually chosen , the reserve , the luxury , the civilization of that day came back to her now as she stood gazing at iron scaffolding , aware of drunks in the square opposite and the depression that had undermined the world , and her , since the buoyancy of that radiant and particular day . |
| 43 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 44 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 45 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 46 | Erm here I 've got some formulae calculating production figures er we 've got different quarters formulae found are somewhat similar er there 's a so that I can copy one to any of the other adjacent cells outside will work I do n't have to edit the formula or do anything to it soon as I copy it , it 's alright for that cell . |
| 47 | The cottage , their belongings , were their joint life , adorned and gave reality to it just as the bushes and flowers they had planted in the garden staked out their territory of trust . |
| 48 | ‘ I have emotional ties to it exactly as it is regardless of the extra voters . ’ |
| 49 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 50 | They called the job crow-keeping , a phrase that Shakespeare used to describe it ; some called it bird-keeping or bird-tending — keeping the birds off the newly sown land — while others referred to it simply as rook-scaring . |
| 51 | Tina grabbed his arm and held on to it fiercely as he stared back into Mrs Cramp 's hard little boot-button eyes . |
| 52 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 53 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 54 | Our Lord 's teaching is presented to us not as information to be sifted , but as guidelines to be followed . |
| 55 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 56 | Such practice appears to us now as rigid , authoritarian and unimaginative . |
| 57 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 58 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 59 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |