Example sentences of "[verb] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no worries when entire troupes toured as their Captains were always experienced travellers but often one or two replacements were needed and they had to travel in couples or even alone . |
| 2 | The Mini bounced as its door was slammed shut . |
| 3 | I can only assume that the crew of this barge were new to boating as their attempt to get by the bridge was reminiscent of ’ Game for a Laugh ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Siempre , ’ he promised as his lips met hers . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't a definite offer , ’ she confessed huskily , laughing as his mouth found hers again , taking revenge in a kiss that took her breath away . |
| 6 | Within a week the king had nominated as his successor a member of one of the greatest royal administrative families in England , Thomas II , a nephew of the Thomas who had consecrated Anselm . |
| 7 | A small indeterminate woman in a lightly belted black raincoat slipped in past me : she had wispy fair hair and I could see at once from whence the twins had inherited what I can only describe as their nebulousness — a sense of the nebulae or star cluster that is better seen out of the corner of the eye . |
| 8 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 9 | He would behave as his mother 's people would have behaved . |
| 10 | These lands the king now claimed as his ‘ proper soil ’ , and tenants were forced to compound with the commissioners by paying fines to the Crown and an annual rent thereafter . |
| 11 | We also heard an interesting contribution by the hon. Member for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) , who strongly criticised the Government for what he described as their extraordinary ’ confusion ’ over the channel tunnel route and their lack of strategy for rail freight . |
| 12 | Throughout her career she was known for her powerful and abrasive manner : what Beatrice Webb described as her ‘ shrewd and capable but contentious ’ style , her ‘ insolently critical attitude towards all persons and institutions ’ , and her ‘ sharp satirical tongue ’ . |
| 13 | In late November , after the lifting of a government order restricting her to the southern city of Karachi , Bhutto vowed to resume what she described as her " Long March " to Islamabad — a declaration which revived fears of further widespread political unrest . |
| 14 | The Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) held on Dec. 14-16 what it described as its 40th congress , and the second since the change of name from Bulgarian Communist Party in April 1990 . |
| 15 | Yet there are many other versions and more which approach what C.P.E. Bach described as his father 's ‘ complete practical fugal work ’ not as a keyboard piece but as chamber music . |
| 16 | Thus The Telegraph under its new editor has sought to shed its Torygraph image by appealing over the heads of what Max Hastings described as his paper 's principal readership — ‘ the landed middle class ’ ( sic ) and ‘ a second tier of readers who live in suburban bungalows with caravans in the garden ’ — to the solvent young city ( or City ) based consumer via state-or-the-art computer graphics in last year 's ‘ Hitch-hiker 's Guide ’ tv ad campaign . |
| 17 | On the strength of the parcels sent back to him by his brothers-in-law , and what Gould described as his ‘ own exceedingly rich collection , perhaps the finest extant ’ , he had already begun to publish a volume entitled A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands . |
| 18 | The men winced as their bare feet touched the plaster and Owen could feel the heat even through the soles of his shoes . |
| 19 | She winced as her bad arm was stretched . |
| 20 | She winced as her chin was caught between cruel fingers and tilted up so that her frightened eyes were forced to look into his . |
| 21 | He grabbed her by the arm , and she winced as his fingers dug cruelly into her tender flesh . |
| 22 | He tried to smile back , and winced as his stiff and swollen upper lip objected agonisingly . |
| 23 | The words said one thing , but the tone of Luke 's deep voice said entirely the opposite , and Fran shot him a withering look , then winced as his hand tightened around hers in a painful warning . |
| 24 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 25 | Elizabeth attempted to escape in the Isuzu , but crashed as her attacker hacked at her through the window . |
| 26 | Wing John Timu was one of the four All Blacks in the Otago XV , North Harbour called on another six , as did Waikato , who had already upset Otago 47–13 , while North Auckland has as their captain Ian Jones , New Zealand 's most recent All Black of the Year . |
| 27 | Similarly , biology has as its subject the genus ‘ animal ’ , a genus which falls into various species such as ‘ dog ’ or ‘ horse ’ . |
| 28 | The government or political executive has as its instrument for the business of governing , the administration or bureaucracy , which extends through the ministries and departments , to a variety of institutions such as public corporations , banks , and others ( particularly the institutions of education and the media ) . |
| 29 | The biochemical evolution of the Earth , including the creation of the reptiles , dinosaurs and the mammals , has as its sole purpose the ultimate evolution of intelligent beings capable of under-standing the laws of physics , and thus able to speculate about the origin and density of the universe . |
| 30 | A limited company which is already registered for VAT has as directors Mr A , Mr D , who is married to a daughter of Mr A , Mr E , who is married to another daughter of Mr A and has as its secretary Mr D. The staff include the two daughters , the directors on a part-time basis , and a son , F , of Mr and Mrs A. |