Example sentences of "[det] as [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | put this as we do it |
| 2 | I find I am not as pleased by this as I thought I might be . |
| 3 | I have always wanted to do this as I love my hair and can do a lot with it . |
| 4 | Lucker has elected not to do this as he tells me he would probably pass out . |
| 5 | But I was just saying , here let's have a little look at this as he pops it off now . |
| 6 | Socialism begins at home , they told one another as they filled their glasses with Oake and Nephews ' Special Christmas Offer Beaujolais . |
| 7 | The irony of course , is that people involved in what is patently the same activity , are increasingly pulling apart from one another as they pursue their own institutional and professional goals by drawing boundaries around the same very narrow ( possibly non-existent ) patch . |
| 8 | Then — it 's horrible — they hungrily drink the child 's blood , and compete with one another as they divide his limbs … |
| 9 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 10 | You know the sort of thing I mean : ‘ For as much as ye do it unto one of these my children — ’ |
| 11 | In fact the acts symbolised repression as much as they enabled it . |
| 12 | And loved it every bit as much as they adored their riverside home . |
| 13 | They should be able to hold prices and they certainly should n't got up by as much as they thought they might have to put them up . |
| 14 | I am being taken to the realms of the People , who hate nature as much as they hate me , who am unnatural . |
| 15 | I 'm buying material where the tape measures are big , so I get extra , and I sell it where the tape measures are small , so they do n't get as much as they think they 've got . |
| 16 | If she did not marry directly she finished training , which was highly probable , as she liked the lads as much as they liked her , before long she would be a Sister Tutor . |
| 17 | I needed them as much as they needed me and I happily took the rough with the smooth . |
| 18 | When its predominant position was restored , the party faced new challenges as the increasing interdependence of industrial society made influential groups realize that the party needed them as much as they needed it . |
| 19 | We should be in the habit of asking questions of ourselves as much as we ask them of others . |
| 20 | Inside , it looks much as we left it . |
| 21 | The Record Offices of these counties possess a considerable number of awards made by the commissioners , often accompanied by a map showing the new lay-out of the parish , with the fields and roads marked out pretty much as we know them today . |
| 22 | Over large tracts of the country , especially in the west and the north , and to a considerable extent in the south-east also , the pattern of field and and hedgerow , hamlet and farm , road and lane , had established itself pretty much as we know it . |
| 23 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
| 24 | Since he was the majority shareholder , this would have meant his family getting hold of the business — and much as we liked them , this was n't a prospect we exactly relished . |
| 25 | Blue here corresponds to 1.6 mm , and shows the cloud tops much as we see them at optical wavelengths . |
| 26 | The one area where we are not doing as much as we think we should is the Midlands ; that is why we are opening there . ’ |
| 27 | They are interested in understanding the pattern of events and ideas ; what things have in common as much as what makes them different . |
| 28 | The contract I signed legally binds the station as much as it does me . |
| 29 | And it worried her too ( He might have had an accident — should I phone the police ? ) , almost as much as it angered her ( He might have had the decency to let me know he would n't be in to supper ) . |
| 30 | If this government channelled its resources against employers who disregard the health and safety legislation as much as it channels its energy at the trade unions through the Employment Act I 'm sure we would see a great decrease in accidents and |