Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] as [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you fail to lose weight as you feel you should , it is tempting to cut down on food even more to get better results . |
| 2 | Sarah Morgan came in to the room like a ghost , and McLeish drew breath as he saw her . |
| 3 | We know we can turn each other on , we know that your body needs mine as mine needs yours . |
| 4 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |
| 5 | You shall see it will fall pat as I told you ’ ( V.i.185ff . ) . |
| 6 | No ruling class , no working class , just people producing wealth as they produced it , consuming it that would be an efficient society where nobody would go hungry , there would be no unemployment , no poverty and er it 's the ultimate objective of er the human race . |
| 7 | This mixture of fish gets on fine in my tank , except when a week after buying them , the Rainbows spawned which caused chaos as they pushed everything to the other end of the tank . |
| 8 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 9 | Suddenly Shiona was trembling with outrage , but her tone was as cool as tempered steel as she told him , ‘ The only ambition I have regarding Kirsty is to be appointed as her legal guardian ! ’ |
| 10 | It is important to realise that the Gospel writers were not writing history as we understand it . |
| 11 | The coroner sat forlornly at the desk in his chamber , his little chancery or writing office as he called it , a place he loved , at the back of the house away from noisy Cheapside . |
| 12 | Harriet hardly dared blink as she watched her through the viewfinder , terrified she might miss the moment she was waiting for . |
| 13 | Almost all of the 32 works on view have a collage of inserts taken from the world of advertising among their drawn work as they continue their extended storylines . |
| 14 | But although , yes , I do see sexuality as something to celebrate it also has the power of evil as well as joy . |
| 15 | There was no tiredness perceptible on Rune 's blandly enquiring face as he shrugged his wide shoulders into his own jacket . |
| 16 | The results are often appalling if we are not able to unload stress as we receive it by letting our feelings out . |
| 17 | Pitt-Rivers was well aware that excavation destroys evidence as it uncovers it , and so he kept meticulous records . |
| 18 | Culpeper achieved fame as he gave his name to a certain type of tripod microscope made in the early eighteenth century , but it is not at all clear that he was its inventor . |
| 19 | There are a handful of noticeably small start-ups wrestling with the key interoperability issues facing Unix as it elbows its way on to the desktop . |
| 20 | Praxsys is one of a handful of noticeably small start-ups wrestling with the key interoperability issue facing Unix as it elbows its way on to the desktop . |
| 21 | This particular passage ends with the sentence : ‘ the purpose of the underground press is ‘ not so much to dissent as to disrupt ’ , and its editorial policies explicitly and implicitly seek to overthrow society as we know it , and of this it makes no secret ’ . |
| 22 | Adjectives like ‘ infinite ’ , ‘ unchanging ’ or ‘ impassible ’ could be taken as simple denials that what characterises reality as we know it characterises God . |
| 23 | Finally , it is important to ask whether his account of the class struggle avoids voluntarism as he claims it does . |
| 24 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 25 | The prosecutor said that Gooch lost control as he overtook his pal 's car at 80mph in a 40mph limit . |
| 26 | Etna is ‘ tired and must be thirsty ’ , he said in a bitter , parting comment as he left his land . |
| 27 | There seems to be no escape from the fact that work substitutes will be needed to preserve society as we know it , carried out in such a way as to preserve particular countries ' economic viability . |
| 28 | At the beginning of the novel we are reasonably sympathetic towards Pip but as the novel progresses we become less sympathetic towards him , as he becomes a snob , embarrassed of his family in Joe , and we feel that he does n't deserve sympathy as he brought it on himself . |
| 29 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 30 | Will he escape to save civilisation as we know it ? |