Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] as [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 2 | That would be selfish and thus it is necessary to encourage them as they wheel their trolleys round the glittering supermarkets , by the playing of Christmas carols . |
| 3 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
| 4 | They were side by side , and she rolled on to her back , arched herself to receive him as she stretched her legs outwards and clasped them round him . |
| 5 | People want to hear you as they know you , not with a false accent . |
| 6 | Eager hands reached out to help him as he eased himself out of the car . |
| 7 | Dommer swung his flamer up to cover her as she twisted her handgun around . |
| 8 | Trevor Magee stopped and looked up as the pigeons took off , anxious to avoid him as he made his way across Trafalgar Square . |
| 9 | Their duty is simply to apply it as they understand it . ’ |
| 10 | The easiest way to do this is to do it as you enter it by typing @NOW and then pressing F9 , the recalculate key before you transfer the entry into the cell by pressing Enter . |
| 11 | So you had to draw it as they describe it . |
| 12 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 13 | We prefer to see him as we think he sees himself : a pragmatist . ’ |
| 14 | He pulled her into his arms , giving her no chance to try to evade him as he held her tightly against the solid strength of his body . |
| 15 | It felt unbearably good to hold him as he kissed her . |
| 16 | The head of Lynnfield Primary School in Hartlepool , Joy Lowe , has written to parents after a ten-year-old girl complained that a man tried to accost her as she made her way to the school . |
| 17 | Then he continued to watch her as he poured himself more coffee . |
| 18 | The Chelsea gear mysteriously got lost ( had to lose it as nobody wanted it … do ya blame them ? ) . |
| 19 | Having gained weight so rapidly , the abandoned pup then begins to lose it as it uses its blubber to develop the organs of its body . |
| 20 | She was forced to face him as he planted himself right across her path . |
| 21 | He decides to join them as he springs them from jail and they continue their journey . |
| 22 | It 's covering myself , really , asking people to take me as they find me . |
| 23 | ‘ She 'll have to take me as she finds me . |
| 24 | And I used to take them as I wanted them and I cleared the lot . |
| 25 | The atmosphere was slightly chilly but she scarcely seemed to notice it as she sat herself at Ward 's desk . |
| 26 | We invite you to join us as we join them in their endless search for peace . |
| 27 | The man , who can not be named , told police : ‘ I wanted to hurt her as she hurt me . ’ |
| 28 | The man told detectives : ‘ I only wanted to hurt her as she hurt me . ’ |
| 29 | The passion to tell it as it strikes us , yet , if we are honest , in the knowledge that we are only passing through and it is easy to manipulate images having moved on . |
| 30 | Jimmy had been shaken by those sounds , more shaken than the others , for good reason , but Cardiff could see that he was unprepared to show it as he pushed himself away from the reception counter . |