Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] as [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 'll have to be sold and the inside scrubbed and made ready for them as buys it . |
| 2 | Will teachers have sufficient respect for them as to make their judgements acceptable ? |
| 3 | This is not a new message , but in trying to develop a more sensitive account of what contemporary Folk Devils are actually doing , we are obliged to consider how and why others in society have come to think of them as doing something quite different . |
| 4 | To earn her displeasure was to forgo all delight ; through the days Nicandra devised love tokens , as much to stimulate interest towards herself as to express her deep affection . |
| 5 | I just thought of it as learning what other people have already thought of a subject … physics seemed so much more dynamic somehow . |
| 6 | They would far rather think of it as realising their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 7 | How can you conceive of something as painful , as hurting , without conceiving of it as hurting you ? |
| 8 | And in fact , if the argument above is sound , to conceive of a knee other than yours hurting in the way in which yours hurts is to conceive of it as hurting you . |
| 9 | A sum like this , though , would eat such a hole in it as to jeopardize his ordinary work . |
| 10 | Edmund reports to Gloucester how , Since it is all , in truth , Edmund 's ‘ suggestion , plot , and damned practice ’ , the inversion is so apparent to us as to make him seem cheeky . |
| 11 | ‘ Should I really ? ’ she said , looking at the wine glass doubtfully , speaking as much to dispel the strange feeling that was coming over her every time she looked at him as to reassure herself over the wine . |