Example sentences of "[vb past] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |
| 2 | Stiletto heels narrowed as well and had to be strengthened with steel supports . |
| 3 | He believed Britain could absorb a ‘ significant influx ’ although he dismissed as nonsense the suggestion that all would want to come . |
| 4 | Having dealt with these it was safe to lump everyone else together as what Smith dismissed as ‘ the fourth sort of men which do not rule ’ , i.e. day labourers , poor husbandmen , merchants and retailers , copyholders and artificers . |
| 5 | ‘ Not much , ’ he dismissed as he carried on walking towards the cottage . |
| 6 | Bordeaux had not taken kindly to competition from what it dismissed as ‘ the hinterland ’ , and had even insisted at one point on Bergerac wines being shipped in smaller casks , thus forcing the Bergerac vignerons to pay more tax on their exports , the money being levied per cask . |
| 7 | Giving evidence yesterday on his own behalf , he dismissed as ‘ rubbish ’ the evidence of the only police officer on patrol with him that the car posed no danger to the patrol . |
| 8 | PREMIER John Major sat squirming in the Commons yesterday as the man he dismissed as Chancellor put a bomb under him and lit the fuse . |
| 9 | Clinton denial : Hillary Clinton dismissed as ‘ nonsense ’ rumours that she has the final say on all of her husband 's high-level government appointments . |
| 10 | Lawrence dismissed as ‘ rubbish ’ reports he would listen to offers for record buy Andy Payton . |
| 11 | Denying that ‘ universal science is centred in mathematics , in the classics ’ , he proposed as fields of study civil policy and languages , fine arts , agriculture and manufactures , natural philosophy , moral philosophy , and mathematics . |
| 12 | Eighty years later Immanuel Kant , in his Zum Ewigen Frieden , ein philosophisches Entwurf ( 1795 ) proposed as one of the preliminary conditions of a lasting peace that no State should ever pass under the control of another by any means — inheritance , exchange , purchase or donation as well as conquest . |
| 13 | Cairngorms proposed as World Heritage site |
| 14 | Another of Joni 's masterpieces , the ‘ Madonna and Child ’ ( fig.4 ) in the style of Matteo di Giovanni , which Perkins also listed as belonging to Lehman , is a similar case . |
| 15 | Thus , anyone listed as aged fifty-five could have been any age between fifty-five and fifty-nine . |
| 16 | Jinny jerked as though someone had pulled at her . |
| 17 | Polly jerked as though she had been slapped . |
| 18 | Rosenberg 's suspicions of Aveling multiplied as piles of receipts were tuned in . |
| 19 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 20 | The Mini bounced as its door was slammed shut . |
| 21 | They were rattled and bounced as the tail of the column swung about , but they were safe . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh ’ and ‘ ouch ’ I howled as I hit the alleyway . |
| 23 | I wandered as in a dream through the gate and across the road . |
| 24 | Mayakovsky 's poem ‘ An Amazing Adventure of Vladimir Mayakovsky ’ surfaced as he worked . |
| 25 | Under the patriarchy of Winston Churchill , homosexuals and teenagers were not marginal but invisible , except when they surfaced as victims of the latest moral panic , of which there were many in those days . |
| 26 | She surfaced as the car slowed down and turned sharply to the right . |
| 27 | She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Siempre , ’ he promised as his lips met hers . |
| 29 | Distancing himself from the CPSU , he promised as President not to represent a single political trend but to involve the full range of " public thought " in government . |
| 30 | These visits to New Southgate were , of course , reciprocated as the grandchildren paid a visit to Granny in Freegrove Road ; stopping off at Beale 's on Holloway Road for chocolate fingers on the way — a great treat — they would go to the side entrance of no. 17 and ring the bell . |