Example sentences of "[verb] as with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 2 | Notice that the design which has been used for weaving does not show as with the sample woven with the smooth yarn , always select simple designs for weaving because the pattern in the fabric results almost entirely from the yarn and not from the needle selection . |
| 3 | When the tears sprang from his eyes and nose and his body shook as with an ague , Mick put his arms about him and , pulling him round , cradled him as he would a child , saying , ‘ There ! |
| 4 | While there are some featherweight kites that will rise in calm air on thermal currents , or elevate when the flyer applies tension on the line by pulling as with the Eastern fighting kites , our concern is that there should be adequate wind strength . |
| 5 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 6 | There is more here to enjoy than to carp about , abut as with the Chopin Waltzes , the rather close digital piano image seems slightly artificial in its bright presence . |
| 7 | Limeflower — induces sleep ; makes a fragrant conditioning hair rinse — brew as with the camomile rinse . |
| 8 | Then the hard body overpowered her completely , thrusting into her , hands biting into her hips as she sprawled beneath him , her mouth slack and her eyes dazed , and as he looked down and saw the expression on her face he began to groan louder with pleasure , whispering incoherent words in a ragged , dehumanised voice , devastating her with the absolute possession he took , sliding his hands under her rear , his face contorting barbarically as he went into a violent climax in a series of deep , fast thrusts and jerked against her with a fierce cry , his body shaking as with the spontaneous release of an electric current . |
| 9 | This can be rewritten as with the notation . |
| 10 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |