Example sentences of "[adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll arrange for the carriers to come down as soon as I get back . |
| 2 | Here are some suggestions on things to practise and to try out whenever you have some height and time to spare , rather than just flying up , round and down as so many pilots usually do . |
| 3 | She did n't have to worry what happened from the waist down as this would be hidden by the table holding her notes . |
| 4 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 5 | Slowly press out until your arms are straightened again and your palms are facing down as before . |
| 6 | Shares and sterling went down as interest rates went up . |
| 7 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 8 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |
| 9 | The man jabs his left ski down as Odd-Knut goes by , gets the ski between dog and trace and is hauled over and forwards . |
| 10 | Again her heart is represented by the mechanism from an old lift : she goes up and down as others will her . |
| 11 | Given the unpleasant blare of the G40 motor , though , it 's just as well it delivers such strong performance low down as prolonged exposure to high revs is tiresome and uncomfortable . |
| 12 | Building Energy Management ( BEM ) systems can now operate the CHP generation plant automatically , ramping its output up and down as reflected by the power load called for by the BEM 's control of the building . |
| 13 | She stood beside him , pressing his back down as he leaned forward again . |
| 14 | The yachts are slowing down as they approach Fremantle and the effect of the high-pressure zone becomes apparent . |
| 15 | The yachts are slowing down as they approach Fremantle and the effect of the high-pressure zone becomes apparent . |
| 16 | Certainly , the market crash of ‘ 87 put the whole matter into perspective and help to propel to prominence the small print in the Government advertisments that investments can go down as well as up . |
| 17 | He settled Francis Morgan down as best he could and took him again through the events of the week before his daughter vanished . |
| 18 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 19 | I could not have him put down as I am a widow and he keeps me company . |
| 20 | Interestingly , too , both are double-acting and allow the driver to push implements down as well as lift them up . |
| 21 | His shaven eyebrows worked themselves up and down as he shouted . |
| 22 | In the brief pause before the auctioneer announced the next lot , Emily spotted her father near the back of the gathering , and , heads down as though they were in a cinema , she and Mungo scuttled round and crouched next to him . |
| 23 | As the traveller in jelly walked in to take his seat , head down as though the floor were a road map , something pink was in evidence under his nose . |
| 24 | He could tell she was very annoyed by the way she jogged her foot up and down as she stared at the window . |
| 25 | He gave his scalp a good scratch , then smoothed his hair down as best he could and twisted the longer bits at the back into a coil which he stuffed inside his collar . |
| 26 | Have some taken sitting down as well . |
| 27 | I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen . |
| 28 | Fernandez remembered North breaking down as he told him , sitting in a parked car one night , that Buckley was dead ; David Jacobsen , the last hostage to be released as a result of the arms transfers , recalled North in tears on the aeroplane to Germany , wishing that the other hostages had been freed with him . |
| 29 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 30 | Everyone else sat down as well . |