Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] 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 | ‘ I care that you 're trying to seduce Dana as you seduced me … nothing more , though I doubt your conceit will allow you to believe that . ’ |
| 3 | Perching birds use the feet to grip branches as we use our hands . |
| 4 | He called in the Army who arrived on Thursday afternoon and dealt with the object — a spent two inch ‘ smokey ’ designed to screen troops as they made their advance . |
| 5 | The results are often appalling if we are not able to unload stress as we receive it by letting our feelings out . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | He details his daily struggle : trying to treat patients as he knows he can , yet unable to find them a hospital bed or specialist referral . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All the holidays in this brochure are specially designed to give you the chance to see Italy as we see it , to experience the truly unique character , the natural beauty and the very varied flavours found throughout our country . |
| 10 | Will he escape to save civilisation as we know it ? |
| 11 | In a pilot experiment subjects attempted to describe films as they watched them in the way described by Hughes and Cole . |
| 12 | He liked to sing hymns as he worked his way up cliff faces . |
| 13 | The army 's ballistic missile defence command in Huntsville , Alabama , is still working on missile-based ‘ terminal ’ defence design to stop missiles as they approach their target . |
| 14 | The morning after the Ober Gabelhorn the Germans came over to say goodbye as we packed our gear on the hut terrace . |
| 15 | ‘ My function , Mr. Gerrard , is to report facts as I find them . |
| 16 | Morale is high , especially after the mujahedin failed to capture Jalalabad as they said they would . |