Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 2 | Both O'Flaherty and Sherington were severely wounded as they got into the warehouse , but with grim determination they staggered clear , leaving a few equally determined Germans in an inner room of the building . |
| 3 | This outstanding man had been seconded from the Royal Welch Fusiliers to serve as Consul at Adana in Turkey , where he behaved with courage and firmness during the Armenian massacres , rescuing several hundred people before he himself was wounded as he rode round the town . |
| 4 | She heard her name called from below , the sound distorted as it echoed from the depths . |
| 5 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 6 | Otley objected as he waited under the trees with his bunch of Brits . |
| 7 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 8 | She could hear her three- year-old son Rufus laughing as he played on the swings nearby . |
| 9 | ‘ What makes Worsdale 's work so interesting to you ? ’ he wanted to know as they walked through the gallery , passing among the tourists and the students and the other visitors . |
| 10 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 12 | Eva grumbled as she stood in the cold , carrying her case . |
| 13 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |
| 14 | There was something about the atmosphere of a theatre that never failed to stir her blood , Shannon mused as she walked along the corridors . |
| 15 | LITTLE did they know as they lazed by the pool that the roof was about to fall in . |
| 16 | On Oct. 27 the founder and leader of the Spanish Labour Party ( PTE ) Santiago Carrillo , 75 , declared his party dissolved as it integrated with the Socialist Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 17 | Maxham winced as he walked across the kitchen . |
| 18 | Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen . |
| 19 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 20 | In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends . |
| 21 | He was interviewed as you know by the clerk , by our groundsman , and a councillor . |
| 22 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 23 | ‘ Touch nothing ’ , he shouted as he sped towards the police station . |
| 24 | ‘ Georgina , ’ the Dean shouted as he passed through the hall . |
| 25 | Otley shouted as he raced towards the bridge . |
| 26 | Helluva fella ! they shouted as he thumped into the chair beside the student , one hand gripping round her shoulder , the other smearing red drops from lips and chin . |
| 27 | ‘ Wotcher ! ’ he shouted as he scraped on the strings . |
| 28 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 29 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 30 | However , new things were to come as we departed on the tiny ferry to Værøy , the penultimate island in the Lofoten chain . |