Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm , Sigmund Freud as you rightly say , a moment there 's anything you can see wrong if , certainly happens to Darwin . |
| 2 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 3 | The Leeds boss pointed the midfielder back on and had to be restrained by reserve official Brian Hill as he furiously remonstrated with referee Joe Worrall . |
| 4 | LIVERPOOL are sweating on a work permit for Norwegian Stig Inge Bjornbye as they anxiously wait to hear if defender David Burrows will play again this season . |
| 5 | Despite the call of duty , and the deep warm affection she had for her cousin 's little girls , every instinct Laura possessed was overwhelmingly urging her to leave this vehicle ; to put as great a distance between herself and Ross as she possibly could . |
| 6 | This change in Pip 's attitude and behaviour and perhaps his realisation that he is not a true gentleman is his final change from contentment , to discontentment and snobbery to finally semi-contentment though I think he knows he can not be fully content with reaching some sort of conclusion with Estella as she still has his heart . |
| 7 | For the first time — and it 's about time — we see Bertie Wooster as he really is , a bungling destroyer of sensibility , eagerly and inanely driving his men on to set up an advanced cricket pitch 100 miles behind enemy lines . ’ |
| 8 | Marshall and fellow defender Richard Jobson were both booked in the space of a minute for pulling down Shearer as he twice homed in on goal shortly after half time . |
| 9 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 10 | Bath players of recent years have never appeared as convincing for England as they regularly do for Bath ; while if they are part of one of those curious South-West sides their form goes down yet another notch . |
| 11 | Panic began to grip Mildred as it slowly dawned on her that not only Tabby , but also the bedstead , all the furniture and even the bats sleeping round the picture rail were many times larger than usual . |
| 12 | Their opposite numbers were George , who treated Frank , or Abu Tariq as they still called him , well and Mazzin . |
| 13 | It 's amusing anecdote central with the rent-a-gob Cockney git and erstwhile punk rock Hip Young Gunslinger as they fondly reminisce about their halcyon days at The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly with a greenly envious IAN McCANN |
| 14 | Probably they had cone to see Yakovlev , or Thiercelin as he now called himself , to report on him . |
| 15 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 16 | ‘ He showed a lot of courage at Leeds on Sunday as we already had two players injured and then we had two sent off . |
| 17 | ‘ Just another couple of feet , ’ cried Gambo as he nimbly moved aside and poised his cleaver ready to chop through the tortured ropes . |
| 18 | But lines like ‘ It 's a bit hard , your Highness , I have n't had it off for a year ’ , when muttered by a grubby servant referring to his shoe , come just as easily from Tony Slattery as they ever did from Sid James . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe when Teddy was acting the goat in this house the Princess of Wales was carrying Queen Maud of Norway as she now is . ’ |
| 20 | We learn to see God as he really is , and not as we have imagined him to be . |
| 21 | The doubts of these two people were entirely different , but they were both doubting God for the same reason : they did not know God as he really is . |
| 22 | ‘ A couple of hours earlier he had been at home watching television , eating his tea , just our Danny as he always was — a 14-year-old boy full of life , energy and cheek . ’ |
| 23 | Ho punched and kicked Jack as he unsuccessfully tried to hold him down . |
| 24 | Back in the late seventies Ernie was a regular in the Island and he achieved his ‘ ton ’ on the Lightweight class but he also rode as passenger for his brother Wallace as they too put up a three figure lap . |
| 25 | But perhaps the breakdown in the city 's sense of itself is as useful an emblem as any for Europe as it uneasily approaches 1992 . |
| 26 | Contrary to popular belief , it seems that a successful imported batsman , from Majid Khan at Glamorgan in 1969 through the likes of Asif , Kanhai , Richards , McEwan , Border , Kick ( un-English-qualified as he then was ) and Haynes to Salim Malik at Essex last year , makes all the difference . |
| 27 | Aston Villa 's own mid-field dynamo , David Platt , was in similar mood to Steve Bull as he too bagged an early hat-trick . |
| 28 | In terms of the user interface , we have an X emulator and controller , XEC as we fondly know it by , erm in order to talk to the user through the users desktop device . |
| 29 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 30 | Laura — Laura Stratton as she now was — was reasonably content with the new arrangements : she was less anxious about burglars , she was chauffeured to her twice-weekly consultations with the latest chiropodist , she forgot most of her worries about the upkeep of the household , and she still found herself able to indulge the twin passions of her life , smoking cigarettes and playing contract bridge — simultaneously , wherever possible . |