Example sentences of "as [noun prp] have done [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 2 | He went on to demonstrate , as Hitchcock had done earlier , just what a British international film industry would look like . |
| 3 | Namely , that the Spirit acts for , and in , and against men in precisely the same way as Jesus had done when on earth . |
| 4 | Afterwards he went by way of St Basil 's Terrace , looking as Sophia had done earlier at the newly done up houses with their prettily painted front doors and rather self-conscious window-boxes and bay trees in tubs , when a woman 's voice called out behind him , ‘ Good evening vicar — been getting fish for pussy ? ’ |
| 5 | Together with them he established the musical pre-eminence of Venice in composition and performance , as Petrucci had done half a century earlier in publishing . |
| 6 | Or that they would do as Allen had done already , dog the footsteps of the verderers , shadowing them from the cover of the forest , until they fell in with some outlaws . |
| 7 | On this basis , Lynch and Bliss were to argue , rather as Kandel had done earlier for serotonin in Aplysia , that it was presynaptic plasticity that was important for the initiation of LTP , and the postsynaptic cell was simply doing what it had to as a result of the increase in the strength of the glutamate signal it was receiving . |