Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 2 | The wife 's common work is to bake bread for the family , to wash and mend ragged clothes , and to look after the children ; but at beansetting , haymaking , and harvest she earns as comes one week with another about 6d . |
| 3 | I suppose you thought you 'd paint Paula in a bad light and make it seem as though she could n't be bothered to go . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |
| 5 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |
| 6 | And let him lose as well the testicles which excited his hot lust . |
| 7 | Owen drew on him , and let him attack as he would , approving the pointless but touching valour with which he came on . |
| 8 | Remember that harmful thoughts will hurt you and let them go as soon as you become aware of them . |
| 9 | Erm , I think these refugees are likely to include the most enterprising , the best trained and so on , they 'll be a grave loss to the Soviet economy , erm , but I think they 're a potential gain to us and er , I do n't think that , I think therefore we should make arrangements to try and absorb them if we can and , and let them contribute as they undoubtedly will to our own economies . |
| 10 | She was tired , he said ; they would go for a walk before breakfast and let her sleep as long as she needed . |
| 11 | The soft , sweet sounds of the piano dropped round me , intoxicating me and compelling me to follow as I drifted towards the sound like a child of Hamelin . |
| 12 | You can teach him , but I can not allow you to go and see him dressed as you are . |
| 13 | Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told . |
| 14 | She drew away from him , shivering as she left the warm circle cast by his body , and heard him sigh as he raised himself up to stare down at her . |
| 15 | Take him away and get him to do as he says . |
| 16 | Thus the Englishman , familiar with his Rhaetian sediments at the top of the Trias , can not but be astounded when he reads of the Rhaetian deposits of Thailand and finds them described as black pyritous shales with Rhaetavicula contorta , resting on red marls and sandstones , with evaporites , just like those of the Severn cliffs . |
| 17 | There 's no need to go and hear them sing as well . ’ |
| 18 | Record the salient terms of the sale ( eg the purchase price , whether the property is freehold or leasehold , desired date of completion , etc ; in the case of a buyer , that the purchase is subject to selling the buyer 's own house or seeking a mortgage and to keep you informed as to his or her success ) . |
| 19 | We do get work from individuals , I said we have an open policy and people come through with problems that they 've got because they know us and some we take up , we try and be helpful and , and take up individual problems and then we have a two way relationship with community groups and last and not , not , not least , we , we live across the corridor from the General Manager and he 's always flying in and giving us work as well . |
| 20 | She put out a hand and felt him wince as she found his injured eye . |
| 21 | Now that I know what is happening in my Discipleship Training School ( DTS ) here in Bolivia , I will try and let you know as well . |
| 22 | A PR executive faced with the task of showing the strength of steel-capped safety footwear hired a double decker bus and had it photographed as it drove over the feet of a man wearing the boots . |
| 23 | with it , and does she weep as well |
| 24 | I really ought to go and help them seeing as we 're . |
| 25 | Would , would , would would , but , I mean I 'm quite in favour of people having their genitals mutilated as adults , once they 're over eighteen , they go to hospital and sign a consent form and have it done as long as they pay for it themselves , but to do it to newborn children strikes me as outrageous . |
| 26 | Derek Malcolm , The Guardian 's film critic , agrees that there has been a gradual shift in perception and suggests it began as movie moguls realised women were no longer being ‘ taken ’ to the movies by their menfolk , hot on the trail of Rambo . |