Example sentences of "[vb base] and [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention . |
| 2 | In other words they appear and disappear as they do because they are controlled by a particular sedimentary facies . |
| 3 | ‘ We hereby agree acknowledge and confirm as follows : ( 1 ) That we have each received from you a copy of the guarantee dated 3 July 1987 ( a copy of which is attached hereto ) under which Nicholas Edward O'Brien guarantees the payment and discharge of all moneys and liabilities now or hereafter due owing or incurred by Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. to you . |
| 4 | The hobble skirt trammelled her steps , yet charmingly ; she swayed a little , seemed to both hesitate and float as she came towards us . |
| 5 | However , evade and evade as he might , in the end he had to come to it : did he love Jane Postlethwaite ? |
| 6 | As we grow and develop as artists , our understanding increases bit by bit , along with our ability — and this book will draw the ambitious artist back time and again , to re-read and appreciate anew , as his , or her awareness and understanding expands and matures . |
| 7 | ‘ Listen and feel as we pull back into the slow lane . ’ |
| 8 | Stop and fix as usual . |
| 9 | Stop and fix as usual . |
| 10 | Black guillemots ( teiste in Norwegian ) dive and disappear as we approach . |
| 11 | ‘ I therefore suggest we wait and see as to that . ’ |
| 12 | Face to face , in perfect synchronicity , they grin and swoop as the sweat drips off them . |
| 13 | New techniques and developments have taken place to give multi-exposure and animated holograms of subjects that change and move as the viewer looks around them . |
| 14 | The impression you create is given as much by how you look and behave as by what you say and this very definitely includes what you wear . |
| 15 | In this particular instance , we interpret And waited as meaning something like ‘ we went on waiting and nothing happened ’ or ‘ we waited in vain' . |
| 16 | ‘ Today , information technology must be conceived of broadly to encompass the information that businesses create and use as well as the wide spectrum of increasingly convergent and linked technologies that process the information . ’ |
| 17 | Muslims weep and cheer as UN convoy rolls in |
| 18 | Remove soaked parts , wipe and brush as needed . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I shortly will be announcing club profits which may be a bit difficult for people to understand , appreciate and accept as they 'll be close to £1m from last year . |
| 20 | She saw his shoulders lift and fall as he sought to gain control of himself . |
| 21 | I turn and nod as he disappears backwards through the hatch . |
| 22 | They position their pylons anywhere they choose and act as though they were still the strategic industry that they were once defined as . |
| 23 | TWO little princesses laugh and shout as they are tossed in the air and splash around in the pool with their mother 's handsome friend with the funny accent . |
| 24 | The boys show no surprise , hesitation , confusion — they merely laugh and confer as to how to attack them . |
| 25 | We descended in human but not mechanical silence into the Inferno of the Friday evening rush hour , the appropriate punishment , I have long since thought , for the millions in that city and in every other who live and think as we did . |
| 26 | The trouble is that whereas actors move and speak as nature would have most of us do ( only rather better ) , in the performance of music we are using tools ( with the exception of the human voice ) which are in some way external ; they have to be mastered from without rather than from within — and things do go wrong . |
| 27 | I can see nothing in democratic thinking which allows us to think of " the people " as anything other than the whole body of citizens , minorities as well as majorities , those who oppose and dissent as well as those who belong to the dominant majority . |
| 28 | He bent forward to take the bouquet , and she felt something inside her tighten and twist as she shrank further behind her flowers . |
| 29 | Now it 's the turn of Jennifer Jason Leigh ( pictured ) and Jason Patric to ( respectively ) moan and mumble as they make tracks across the border separating responsible undercover police work from plain strung-out weirdness in this month 's Rush , Lili Fini Zanuck 's sombre adaptation of Kim Wozencraft 's semi-autobiographical novel about life as a narcotics cop in Seventies Texas . |
| 30 | French expert Michael Odent claimed dads present at the birth — like rock star Rod Stewart , actor Michael Caine and Prince Charles — often gasp and groan as though in agony . |