Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although somewhat bulky and unflattering , it was not unsuccessful as it blended with the current trend for layered clothes and endorsed the rustic air of a bygone age that other ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were now describing , As they would not consider offering anything that was not made of 100 per cent natural fibres , they managed to complete the range by producing dresses in brushed cotton and cotton corduroy . |
| 2 | His fingers were tobacco-stained as he fiddled with a biro . |
| 3 | Outside in the April sunshine the temperature was over seventy degrees , but Polly felt chilled as she looked with rising desperation towards the window . |
| 4 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 5 | if you hit something twice as big to what you 're hitting it 'll go twice as fast as it does with a snooker ball . |
| 6 | Suffice to say we spent two fruitless days at Glastonbury and left as we came with only two scraps of information : first , Hopkins had been a monk at the abbey , and secondly had discovered his famous riddle there . |
| 7 | When they reached the after stateroom , he left her prodding the waterbed as he fiddled with the stereo to get some low-level background music . |
| 8 | The rest of his party brought up the rear , baiting and goading Ranulf , who gave as good as he got with a stream of obscene English oaths . |
| 9 | would talk for instance [ Richard later wrote ] of the ‘ Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ’ and hold us all , a group of young boys , spellbound as he unfolded with conscious looks of wonder the marvellous courage of the man Eliot to write the poem ‘ Prufrock ’ at the time he did . |
| 10 | At the moment trading in ivory is legal as long as it complies with conditions laid down by CITES . |
| 11 | The Pitman yard , which has done so well in this race — one winner , a second and two thirds since 1983 — believe he will adapt to the unique Aintree fences , and as long as he copes with the first few , they feel he must go close . |
| 12 | ‘ You have employment as long as you wish with IBM ’ , they say . |
| 13 | When you get people on to a sort of Noddy Goes Selling course , which is the first one you come on , you are expected to believe that when you leave here anybody who does n't use T N T Express would be absolutely crazy , and that everybody you 're going to talk to is going to bite your arm off as long as you stay with your boyfriend . |
| 14 | As long as you identify with the negative messages that trick you into becoming a victim to negativity , then you will be used . |
| 15 | I do n't give tuppence , as long as you sleep with me . ’ |
| 16 | If both the frame and substitution items have gliding tones that is of course an added difficulty , but as long as you work with a frame that stays the same , you at least have something constant with which to compare the substitution items . |
| 17 | She must keep him away , keep fighting him , because as long as she fought with him she and Edmund were safe . |
| 18 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 19 | Her father had warned her it would be this way , his grey eyes unusually concerned as he sat with her in the club office . |
| 20 | ‘ No , I 'm damned well not ! ’ she denied furiously , her eyes wide and startled as they clashed with his . |
| 21 | That 's as far as it goes with me . |
| 22 | In relation to the Special Document , whilst I support the document er , as far as it goes with one exception , and that 's in relation to the unemployed members , but whilst I support it as far as it goes , I do n't believe it goes far enough . |
| 23 | You could be as frank as you wanted with be . ’ |
| 24 | It was the most successful tour England had ever made , all the more satisfying as it began with them being written off as a bunch of no-hopers . |
| 25 | But at high NO concentrations , ozone levels are low as it reacts with NO to form NO&sub2 ; . |
| 26 | Well , that last statement is not exactly true as I agree with the sentiments of those who have argued that the Exile clubs should not be in the Courage Leagues , which are meant to be for English players . |