Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 2 | He can then stand on Old Sarum , look south and see Salisbury Cathedral and Clearbury Ring aligning with it exactly as on the map . |
| 3 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 4 | A school enjoying high status compared with its neighbours , located in a solid middle-class area , housed in relatively new buildings and already in receipt of other resources ( e.g. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) ) would be felt to have so much going for it already as to be less sympathetically considered than other schools . |
| 5 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 6 | It had left her a little awe-stricken and she made a move to look at it again as it lay on her dressing-table . |
| 7 | She feared that the air of Paris would be poisoned with it just as the air of the Riviera had been … |
| 8 | When Jess holds the ball , looking for men to beat , the truly hooked observer is caught in that exquisite dilemma of wishing he 'd get rid of it so as not to risk failure , while at the same time hoping he 'll carry on regardless and do something outrageous . |
| 9 | He was as energised by it all as she was . |
| 10 | ( Indicating costumes ) We had to run for it just as we were . |
| 11 | There 's a quasi-religious , Gospel feel about it all as grown women clap and cheer . |
| 12 | Gasping with desperate exertion , she got the canoe into the water , and leapt into it just as he seemed to realise what she was doing . |
| 13 | The contract is thus a " dual capacity " transaction in the strict sense and the broker enters into it both as agent for the client and as principal . |
| 14 | They called the job crow-keeping , a phrase that Shakespeare used to describe it ; some called it bird-keeping or bird-tending — keeping the birds off the newly sown land — while others referred to it simply as rook-scaring . |
| 15 | She gave it back after reading it , and he went through it carefully as though he had never seen it . |
| 16 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 17 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 18 | Knoydart is a delight , looking mouth-watering from the Glenfinnan tops , and you can keep gazing at it longingly as you walk west from Sgurr Thuilm , round the rim of its heroic corrie towards Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 19 | A newly-wed husband legally acquired all his wife 's real and personal property , and he could dispose of it exactly as he thought fit . |
| 20 | You could get quite a lot from this book , either by reading it as a whole book , or by dipping into it either as you need to know something , or simply keeping it handy and reading the occasional topic when you get bored . |
| 21 | In my judgment the basic answer which any real property lawyer would give to a question about an assignee 's power to deal with a tenancy interest is that each assignee is the owner of the whole estate and can deal with it so as to alter it or its terms . |
| 22 | They 're working on it fast as they can , but , hell , Zack , twenty-five thousand stones , all good , all untraceable — that takes a bit — ‘ |