Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was unusual in this case was that even in his great excitement he still carried the photographs of Koko and pointed to them repeatedly as he looked toward the teacher , who nodded and said ‘ Yes ’ to Sherman . |
| 2 | If the Germans can provide this , we should be grateful to them just as the world ought to be grateful to us for having a zero line of longitude running constantly through Greenwich ’ . |
| 3 | She was to refer to them wryly as her ‘ yearly knitting ’ , but they are classics of their kind , deftly constructed with strong characterization and a meticulous prose style . |
| 4 | They call us Les Rosbifs as it is ( as the English refer to them disparagingly as the frogs ) and may indeed wonder what the students intend to do Ermentrude . |
| 5 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 6 | ‘ Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it happened ’ ( Acts 11:4 ) . |
| 7 | But I know what 'll happen to me soon as I put my face round the door . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the parties agree that each of them will accept my decision on the matters referred to me hereunder as conclusive and binding and that neither will bring any action or proceeding or make any claim against me as expert relating to or arising from the performance of my duties hereunder . |
| 9 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 10 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 11 | yeah he 's talked to me actually as well about dealing with people who from the inside have dealt working with him doing royal visits because obviously that 's quite useful a lesson for them to get over to people |
| 12 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ Then ask them to repeat it back to you just as you told it . |
| 14 | As I say , I 'll get it back to you just as soon as I 've managed to make a copy of it . ’ |
| 15 | I should like to reiterate those comments to you now as I believe they remain relevant : 1 ) Control the duration of play by an ice hockey-type clock to prevent time-wasting. 2 ) Players to have their names on the back of their shirts . |
| 16 | Derrida 's reply did not take the form of a reasoned rebuttal but of ninety pages of verbal clowning , which put Searle in his place by referring to him throughout as ‘ Sarl ’ , an acronym for ‘ Societé à responsabilité limitée ’ , which means a limited company . |
| 17 | He lay back by the open window with his eyes closed and the warm breathless air came to him just as in another cooler season heat fanned from the grid lower down the wall . |
| 18 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
| 19 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I do n't lie to him especially as we 've got a obviously . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Listen to him now as he tells us how and why he became a convert . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If they had given his note to her exactly as he had said … |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |