Example sentences of "as [pron] [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have this niggling little doubt about whether I can get through a summer with you as my room-mate and have my sanity intact . ’ |
| 2 | Until then my writing to you , my own sweet little one , must taste even as harsh as my conversation and look now are … |
| 3 | A defence is only as good as its defenders and do not forget that good players do not turn out in non-League football for beer money . |
| 4 | It takes Paul de Man 's Allegories of Reading as its example and demonstrates that a multi-layered structure of different voices and personalities creates an untheorised confusion between a text and its reading : a confusion which is seen as a key factor in the impact of deconstruction in literary studies . |
| 5 | While she worked she told Sara how fortunate she was to be going to Portugal and to have been found a husband and how , when she was married , it would be her duty to obey him and remain utterly faithful to him , taking the Blessed Virgin Mary as her model and guide in all things . |
| 6 | She was , in terms of the law , the better witness , did not rail or curse as wildly as her opponent and rival — the widow , at one point , fell to the ground in convulsions , twitching and flailing . |
| 7 | While window-shopping in Manhattan or on Broadway , they would find that they were being followed block after block , then , having sized up her figure and made certain the Girl was aware she was being followed , the man would walk ahead , glance round to check that her face was as good as her body and start a conversation . |
| 8 | Recently-hatched dogwhelks ( plate 1b ) are found at the same level as their capsules and seem to prefer the empty cases of barnacles to the shells of living or dead mussels . |
| 9 | Facilities such as an iconographic databank are expected to encourage researchers to use the building as their base and help establish the institute as a rival to the Courtauld and the Getty from the point of view of new research . |
| 10 | ( In contrast , the Coloured population of Cape Province regard Afrikaans as their language and have used it to express their radical sentiments . ) |
| 11 | Managers became alarmed as , against all expectations , the operators managed to control the machinery just as well as their supervisors and demanded higher wages . |
| 12 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 13 | Brian Rose was brought in for his first home Test and promised he would attack the bowling ; he was as good as his word and made 70 , but 33 from Gatting was the only other contribution as the last seven wickets went for 24 in fifty-two minutes . |
| 14 | It is now accepted as his masterpiece and has spawned a small industry in northern Italy . |
| 15 | Their child had been acknowledged as his daughter and raised in his house , which gave her all the privileges and benefits of belonging to one of Egypt 's leading families . |
| 16 | Your Catfish may regard the whole tank as his territory and attack anything you put in as competition . |
| 17 | He was not as tall as his brother and had fair hair and grey eyes and his mother 's complexion . |
| 18 | He concentrates his energies on survival and focuses his hope on the second addition to his life since my departure : a son , now quite as tall as his father and doing well at school . |
| 19 | But so do many private individuals , and we do not believe that a citizen 's sphere of personal freedom necessarily shrinks as his power and influence grow . |
| 20 | Morvael appoints Mentheus of Caledor as his general and introduces the levy system of mandatory universal military service that will eventually produce the great citizen-soldier armies of Ulthuan . |
| 21 | We may choose a professional sports person as our referent and bemoan the fact that our salaries do not compare despite the fact that we may have as much talent in our chosen fields . |
| 22 | So if you use a box with the same bell housing stud pattern as your engine and use the clutch assembly to suit the box , they will all fit together . |
| 23 | Consider the sweater your canvas , a needle as your paintbrush , the bands as your frame and enjoy the freedom of experimenting . |