Example sentences of "as they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If and when re-unification came about , the Four Powers would lift their hand from the city as they lifted it from ‘ Germany as a whole ’ . |
| 2 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 3 | The assistants price the items as they stack them on the shelves , or when they are already on the shelves . |
| 4 | This often seemed to be taken to excess and getting drunk or ‘ blind drunk ’ was described as common practice , at least within their world as they revealed it to us . |
| 5 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 6 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |
| 7 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 8 | Medley is ‘ everywhere infinitely a picture ’ ; Lockleigh , ‘ as they saw it from the gardens , a stout grey pile , of the softest , deepest , most weather-fretted hue , rising from a broad , still moat … a castle in legend ’ , is another ‘ noble picture ’ . |
| 9 | Deem gives the example of cuts in teacher training , which had the effect of reducing the opportunities that had previously been available to large numbers of girls who had been considered by their teachers to be , as they put it to Michelle Stanworth , ‘ not university material ’ . |
| 10 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 11 | So you were — but as soon as they put you in my arms I could see you were no use to me ! ’ |
| 12 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 13 | A concept is not just a sticky label , so to speak , which we apply to objects as they present themselves to our senses . |
| 14 | The question we must now turn to is : can one of the subsidiary arguments for the justification of authority supplement the main argument and show that at least the authority of relatively just governments is as wide as they claim it to be ? |
| 15 | ‘ Guest room 's good enough for him tonight , ’ Fiona grunted as they swung him onto the bed and dropped him . |
| 16 | It squeaked and jingled on its hinges as they swung it behind them . |
| 17 | The Newmarket trainer runs Top Class in the Longchamp spectacular and the faithful backing Brittain will expect to be laughing all the way to the bank as they help themselves to the generous 40-1 on offer . |
| 18 | Others cash in by selling aircraft as soon as they get them to consortiums of banks and investors — and then lease them back . |
| 19 | ‘ As long as they get me past the post . ’ |
| 20 | His hands dangled over the sides of the wheelchair as they took him to the salon to meet the Bishop . |
| 21 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 22 | They all do it , to some extent , and if they take it further it 's never the same as they imagine it to be . |
| 23 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 24 | What is more , the Spirit who has become resident in the followers of Jesus mediates to them the victory over the world which Jesus had ( 4:4 ) as they trust him for the power to overcome temptation ( 5:3,4 ) . |
| 25 | As they bundled her down the stairs she must have fainted , because the next thing she could recollect was being wheeled along an endless corridor that smelled of disinfectant . |
| 26 | We see that Cordelia 's judgement of them was correct : As they taunt her for her disobedience she replies , ‘ Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides ; /Who covers faults , at last with shame derides ’ ( 280f . ) . |
| 27 | Japanese companies are getting stronger and stronger , as they turn themselves from exporters into true multinationals . |
| 28 | As they served themselves from the many little dishes , Maura surveyed her companion . |
| 29 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 30 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |