Example sentences of "as the [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was considered quite an innovation when , after the First World War , the " progressive officials " of R. & R. Clark decided on " a combined " Annual " " in 1921 , " instead of one section having a smoker all on their own and the other a high tea and gossip " , as the ST[ put it . |
| 2 | Izzie looked at her father and kept her eyes on him , her head turned further and further over her shoulder , as the Mason towed her away by her wrist through the pushing crowd . |
| 3 | But she quoted the Bouveries in London , as the Ramsays quoted them in Oxford . |
| 4 | Born in Limerick a year and a half ago as The Cranberry Saw Us ( shudder ) the three boys decided that they wanted a girl to call their own . |
| 5 | The putting of the city to the ban , or devoting it to the Lord , as the RSV puts it , is part of Joshua 's final orders to the people on the seventh day , and receives no mention in God 's initial instructions to him . |
| 6 | Only the longing for meat ( some commentators have called it a lust , but the Hebrew does not pass that judgement ) , the claim that their appetite is gone , or their throats are dry , or , as the RSV has it , their strength is dried up ( the Hebrew will sustain all those translations ) , and an unspecified complaining about their misfortunes . |
| 7 | Aileron forces are fine at low speeds , but as the IAS increases they get heavier , despite their balance tabs , until at 250 knots , using one 's biceps most efficiently , one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left , while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls . |
| 8 | A minority slice of the population loathed Livingstone with as much passion as the Right-Ons loved him . |
| 9 | A decade later , society had begun to sense the triviality of this approach — ‘ splitting pubic hairs ’ , as the BBFC described it . |
| 10 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman , like me , condemns the Trades Union Congress motion which rejected ’ alien investment ’ in this country , as the TUC saw it . |
| 11 | Diana , it seems , has no critics within the portals of San L 's , as the Sloanes call it , and it is little wonder that Prince Charles has never been seen descending its stairs . |
| 12 | Innocent III employed mercenaries in January 1199 and in 1199 – 1200 , as the Gesta tells us . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd say his heart was never in it , but as the SS hanged him at Flossenburg concentration camp in April forty-five , we 'll never know . ’ |
| 14 | This was the part that Wilson largely took in the final , becoming a ‘ great spoiler ’ , as the Examiner put it . |
| 15 | He was , as the Examiner put it , the ‘ Napoleon of football ’ , and ‘ probably no manager has more power from the team selection standpoint ’ . |
| 16 | If Lewis now refuses to fight Tony Tucker first , as the WBC want him to , he should also lose his crown . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're ready to go , just as soon as the UN tells us , ’ said one source , who asked not to be identified . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 19 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
| 20 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |