Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The testator hints that if they do a good job they may expect as their reward that their sons will be made over into their power . |
| 2 | Now what actually happens , now as I say I 'm going to the far end , your casualty may literally shriek as they go down , now this is the person that has no warning at all , they may shriek as they go down and it 's the air that 's coming out of the body , they will go rigid as every muscle clenches , the teeth clench , the muscles go rigid , erm and they 're going to be very , very blue because erm , because er they 've stopped breathing which seems like an eternity . |
| 3 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 4 | In such an organization you feel hemmed in by people who can refuse you permission to do something or who are only waiting to jump all over you if you appear to be taking the initiative , or achieving something which even they may recognize as being highly desirable , in ‘ the wrong way ’ . |
| 5 | This is because , like other aspects of pronunciation , they may function as symbols of , for example , social status or regional origin and will consequently be adopted , or avoided , by individuals . |
| 6 | They ought to do as he says because he says so . |
| 7 | Let children know they must do as they are told . |
| 8 | Those who would follow the extensive design can be sure that their results are typical , but they must hypothesize as to whether the few properties that survive the working of the inverse ratio between extension and intension have any individuality at all ( De Waele and Harre , 1976 ) . |
| 9 | Staff working the tills in supermarkets are being told that they must smile as they check out each item and present the bill . |
| 10 | They must get as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in . |
| 11 | A lot of the recruits found the orders process hard to take and did n't understand why they should do as they were told . |
| 12 | The therapist has to work hard to reduce the general level of anxiety and they should present as being relaxed , confident , and reassuring . |
| 13 | Well , from Cizek 's point of view , it is much better that they should draw as they know to be , than for him to show them by means of perspective how to draw the house as it is seen by the camera 's eye . |
| 14 | If they are unable to do this then they should resign as Michael Hesseltine did during the Westland affair . |
| 15 | ‘ Absolutely no one — they 'll react as soon as they guess I 've left the country . |
| 16 | And since the Tories have been parked in Number 10 for the past 13 years , they 'll do as targets when the custard pies come to be thrown . |
| 17 | ‘ More to the point , Chieh Hsia , how do you know that they 'll do as you ask ? ’ |
| 18 | " And they 'll laugh as they ruin you . " |
| 19 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
| 20 | In selecting them I have tried to imagine an audience of 11–13-year-olds , and consequently what they might regard as ‘ funny ’ : |
| 21 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 22 | Dorothy had an inspiration as to who they could go as , and for the rest of the evening they amused themselves digging through an old encyclopedia to find pictures from which to copy costumes . |
| 23 | The girls continued to giggle and scream and run and hide and generally have fun with their father , whom they adored and knew they could do as they liked with — especially , Katya , the middle one and the liveliest . |
| 24 | Failure to react would allow the English to think that they could do as they wished . |
| 25 | It was fortunate that she and William had such a flexible relationship : they could do as they pleased , and not necessarily together ; each of them was still an individual . |
| 26 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 27 | All over Europe sailors had been accustomed to drawing a meridian through a point in their own country or through the furthest point to the west out in the Atlantic that they could determine with any certainty , and English sailors had usually taken their fixed meridian from a point west of the Lizard ( the last promontory of land they could see as they left the English Channel ) . |
| 28 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 29 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 30 | For the filmmakers of Anderson 's generation , there was a double frustration : both that there was no vital British cinema they could celebrate as critics , and that the film industry had shrunk to the point where it offered no easy point of entry into the industry . |