Example sentences of "[to-vb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | Of course some terms may be difficult to categorize as stop or non-stop . |
| 3 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
| 4 | Now , having checked out the way EUROAIM functions , we may decide to go as part of their umbrella . |
| 5 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 6 | ‘ What a splendid idea to go as a Gnome ! |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad . |
| 8 | He may profess not to enjoy it , but Pitt has an instinctive understanding that playing up the teen idol image will help him get where he wants to go as an actor . |
| 9 | Neither would Souness want to go as a failure . |
| 10 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 11 | The sensation therefore was immense when he abandoned cricket , and a life of wealth and ease , to go as a missionary to China . |
| 12 | And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st |
| 13 | Perhaps we could arrange to go as a foursome ; we 'd have no trouble getting a table if I make the arrangements . ’ |
| 14 | For we understand that Dexter — the man who sacked David Gower — is set to go as chairman of selectors . |
| 15 | and I 'd like to go as an army chef or an army mechanic |
| 16 | I think we 're going to go as a council in the direction of not answering letters on time . |
| 17 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 18 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 19 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 20 | But I depressed his chest with my palms every three seconds In the old-fashioned way , willing the dog to breathe as the eyes still stared at nothing . |
| 21 | Suddenly her throat was tight ; a pressure seemed to be constricting her lungs , making it difficult to breathe as a tiny alarm bell began to ring in her brain . |
| 22 | It is recognised , however , that it may be appropriate to include as an element of the CPE programme , time spent on the development of interpersonal or management skills . |
| 23 | Entrusting the decision in unfair dismissal cases to tribunals was a conscious decision designed to include as part of the decision-making process the industrial experience of employers and employees . |
| 24 | It is common to include as the purchaser 's responsibility such items as fencing , new roadworks , removal and reconstruction of septic tanks , connection of existing properties to new drains , and construction of garages . |
| 25 | We also need to understand any terms and conditions you wish to include as part of the deal structure . |
| 26 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 27 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |
| 28 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 29 | Allen had crept under a bush and even asleep was as difficult to see as a wild creature . |
| 30 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |