Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , wills show that books such as primers , saints ' lives ( Legenda Aurea ) , Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy and psalters belonged to such people as tailors , grocers , vintners and mercers . |
| 2 | The two mums smiled at each other as Stuart and Linda raced off down the aisle . |
| 3 | British laws evolved from these principles as have the laws of other countries and these are the laws accepted for society . |
| 4 | Guys ' drawings appeared in such papers as the Illustrated London News , a very successful venture begun in 1842 , the decade which also saw the founding of satirical journals like Punch or Kladderadatsch . |
| 5 | There was an electric blower on the dressing table , another on the chest of drawers , two or three bar fires familiar from nursery days ; the fumes from three ancient paraffin stoves hovered in such air as was left . |
| 6 | ‘ If only we knew what was happening , ’ women said to each other as news came that Holland had been flooded and then that Rotterdam had been blitzed and the Dutch had surrendered . |