Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creep will also say things like , ‘ Oh , I know just how you feel ’ or ‘ I hear what you say ’ , and by the end of the interview you 'll know as much about them as they know about you . |
| 2 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 3 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 4 | He does n't like to think about them as he likes to sleep at night . |
| 5 | He spoke slowly to the children and did not take his eyes off them as he spoke . |
| 6 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 7 | I wondered if he felt as strongly about me as I did about him . |
| 8 | " I know you do n't feel about me as I do about you , but that does n't matter . " |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe you do n't know as much about me as you think , ’ Niall said huskily , a wealth of controlled feeling in the way he held her from him to look down at her . |
| 10 | The salts dissolved in the oceans do not reside there permanently , rather they cycle through them as they pass from crystalline to sedimentary rock . |
| 11 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 12 | She glanced through them as she ate . |
| 13 | ‘ The thought of not being there for them as they grew up was too much to bear , ’ she said . |
| 14 | A SOLDIER who supplied transport for two younger youths intent on burglary , and kept watch for them as they carried out a theft , was fined over £300 by Alton magistrates on Tuesday . |
| 15 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 16 | Time ceased for a while for them as they kissed and held each other . |
| 17 | Felipe was out of the water and waiting for them as they arrived at the place where the lake quietly lapped the path . |
| 18 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 19 | Probably his supposed intention was a pure fiction of the monks ' imagination , but the remembrance of a lost opportunity was a heavy burden for them as they watched their rights being pared away under successive kings and archbishops . |
| 20 | The surgical team were scrubbed and in Theatre ready , but Andrew Barrett , the paediatrician , was waiting for them as they pulled up . |
| 21 | It was there for them as it had always been . |
| 22 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 23 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
| 24 | The Foreign Office Minister , Mr William Waldegrave , said : ‘ The message we must get across is that those in the security services , those working for the state , should recognise that a day of reckoning will come for them as it has come for the East Germans and others . ’ |
| 25 | How sorry I felt for them as I stood with my images of a future of crackling kindling and bringing the pine logs hither and other rustic carry-ons . |
| 26 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 27 | He loved the ritual and the quiet sense of harmony between them as they walked along , and the things they talked about . |
| 28 | She sensed a strained explosive atmosphere between them as they exchanged small talk . |
| 29 | Nor was she unaware of the interest Matt and Silas took in her movements , having caught glances passing between them as they paused to watch her fold the table napkins round the knives and forks which were left in readiness to be picked up from the end of the table . |
| 30 | There was no contact between them as they toured the magnificent sixth-century shrine . |