Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 2 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 3 | LITTLE did they know as they lazed by the pool that the roof was about to fall in . |
| 4 | Caitlin 's voice made him jump as he bellowed across the room : ‘ You left a young girl to walk along a dark road at night ? |
| 5 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 6 | It needs , as a minimum , some complementary statement of aims of what the NHS should achieve as it moves into the next century . |
| 7 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 8 | How did you feel as you came to the end of your working week yesterday afternoon ? |
| 9 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 10 | From 9.30 to 5.30pm , 6 days a week , we smother the children with suncream , take them for walks , supervise those that can swim as they play in the water , feed them and entertain them with games . |
| 11 | I can not do as I like in the house . |
| 12 | But I should say that if I had to buy them , I would do as I did with the ones I have — buy from a breeder . |
| 13 | Looking very much like the arrogant duchess he had once accused her of being , despite her wet and muddy state , she drew herself up to her full height , and stated with flat finality , ‘ You can both do as you please regarding the land . |
| 14 | You may do as you wish with the legacy because I 'll never come back to this hateful country . ’ |
| 15 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 16 | Libby stared at the man 's eyes ; they were blue , but she did n't take in the colour , just the fact that they did not seem to see her , they looked at something else They were like the eyes of the blind man in Mallow , which looked everywhere but did not see as he tapped along the pavement . |
| 17 | There was still a Mediterranean atmosphere , as I could see as I walked beneath the Spanish arch along the cobbled quayside towards the harbour . |
| 18 | Which incidentally you can clean as they hang at the window . |
| 19 | His remarks would recur as he shouted across the streets to the snobbish people of Chichester . |
| 20 | I must admit as we walked through the churchyard , my wife and eldest granddaughter came along to help , I felt a little apprehensive , but there was not need , fortunately it fitted perfectly . |
| 21 | ‘ As I heard the gossip , Riddle replaced the Scapegoat in the Wheel and two witnesses heard him scream as he bowled down the hill . ’ |
| 22 | Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres . |
| 23 | I shut the door behind me , because I do n't want to hear it crash as I walk down the path . |
| 24 | I could swear I saw it sizzle as it ate through the varnish . |
| 25 | remember that the horse is perhaps feeling a little weary and that his concentration may wander as he returns to the welcome sight of home . |
| 26 | And secondly , you 'll get a greater , obviously a greater amount of litter , because they do eat as they walk across the sites . |
| 27 | In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning . |
| 28 | ‘ Pwy sy'n fel ni ? ’ his father would ask as he squatted outside the Miner 's Arms on a summer 's evening , nicely , melancholy , drunk . |
| 29 | ‘ Goodness , ’ she heard Caldecott say as she walked across the lawn towards her car . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's too late , Doctor ! ’ he heard Rosheen say as she slumped to the ground . |