Example sentences of "[verb] as " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | Tom Slack 's sense of fun effectively camouflages the dramas and dangers he endured as a pilot , as an escaper and ultimately as a POW . |
| 3 | He wrote a book which we bought , all about the discrimination he endured as a Methodist living in Ireland . |
| 4 | far from being crushed as a nation by the Russian conquest , the Yakuts succeeded in adapting to the ways of their conquerors and extended their own influence over their Tungus and Yukagir neighbours , not to mention the Russians themselves . |
| 5 | Of course some terms may be difficult to categorize as stop or non-stop . |
| 6 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 7 | If the child has become lost or frightened as a result of parental neglect , then the adult in question may expect to be admonished by the fairy , who dislikes irresponsibility and carelessness . |
| 8 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 9 | Peterborough : Shelley revealed as a heartbreaker |
| 10 | Goyescas , where one piano plays as if there were three . |
| 11 | He had appeared in only five stage plays as a professional adult when he was called to Stratford-upon-Avon to play a full season of major Shakespearian roles . |
| 12 | She plays as a middle hitter . |
| 13 | WIDNES allrounder Richard Hignett plays as a batsman when Cheshire open their Minor Counties championship programme against Cornwall at Stalybridge today . |
| 14 | New signing Ryan Cross will fill the problem position of right back , even though he also plays as a central defender . |
| 15 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
| 16 | Now , having checked out the way EUROAIM functions , we may decide to go as part of their umbrella . |
| 17 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 18 | ‘ What a splendid idea to go as a Gnome ! |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad . |
| 20 | He may profess not to enjoy it , but Pitt has an instinctive understanding that playing up the teen idol image will help him get where he wants to go as an actor . |
| 21 | Neither would Souness want to go as a failure . |
| 22 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 23 | The sensation therefore was immense when he abandoned cricket , and a life of wealth and ease , to go as a missionary to China . |
| 24 | And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st |
| 25 | Perhaps we could arrange to go as a foursome ; we 'd have no trouble getting a table if I make the arrangements . ’ |
| 26 | For we understand that Dexter — the man who sacked David Gower — is set to go as chairman of selectors . |
| 27 | and I 'd like to go as an army chef or an army mechanic |
| 28 | I think we 're going to go as a council in the direction of not answering letters on time . |
| 29 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 30 | Or perhaps more accurately , the designed object is validated as museum display through the discourse of design history . |