Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pushing aside the imposed conventions , the restraints and inhibitions she 'd always accepted as right and proper , necessary even , she pressed herself against him . |
| 2 | Her eyes are the keenest green I have ever seen as though they , too , have been dyed . |
| 3 | No wonder we have always eaten as we have , she thought ; if nothing else comes out of my malaise I may at least learn how to cook in the spirit of the times . |
| 4 | Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others . |
| 5 | The range of his talk was beyond me — even when not particularly profound , it was salted with allusions , and the connections he drew between things I had hitherto regarded as unconnected were startling . |
| 6 | ‘ This reduces the time spent on training and saves duplication for people who have already completed as initial full-day Team . |
| 7 | The word I have here glossed as " mankind " was Jinghpaw , which is the term by which the people known to the British as Kachins describe themselves . |
| 8 | It was impossible to tell whether the thing she had surprisingly described as being shaped like a Greek alpha was still there or not . |
| 9 | He reached the level of the bridge , swung his back to the wall , covering the ladder they had just used as Forster made for the door . |
| 10 | We do it when we decide that someone is unable to attend a school we have already described as ‘ comprehensive ’ . |