Example sentences of "[adj] as he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prepared as he was , Li Yuan nonetheless felt a sudden tightening in his stomach . |
| 2 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 3 | Gently , under the comforting warmth of the duvet , he removed her jersey and bra , but his hands , not satisfied , sank lower , their movements purposeful as he removed her skirt to reveal the black woolly tights . |
| 4 | Delaney was unconvinced as he held out his hand . |
| 5 | Moran looked stern and self-conscious as he drove up the short avenue . |
| 6 | MR MICHAEL Howard , the Water Minister , yesterday effectively admitted that water shares have been underpriced as he formally closed the deadline for application amid City predictions that the issue will open at a premium of up to 30 per cent . |
| 7 | Absorbed as he was by the sight of a family in grief , a new phenomenon for him , he could not help observing , with some awe , the large number of military men present to testify to their friendship with the dead man . |
| 8 | The ground beneath her feet seemed to become unstable as he kissed her . |
| 9 | But this was not good enough for French as he had to consider the Wallaby players who had a fixture 24 hours later against Eastern Province and the test with the Springboks four days later . |
| 10 | Restrained as he may now appear to be , his precariously balanced control might well snap as his passion mounted . |
| 11 | He felt perfectly calm as he entered the shop . |
| 12 | Huy felt anger rise into his mouth , but he made himself remain calm as he described the dead girl from the land of the Twin Rivers . |
| 13 | He seemed to hang suspended above the worshippers , his two tiny arms held out in front of him , and he was as still and quiet and calm as he had been when sitting at the Wilsons ' table or resting , alone , at the back of Class 1 . |
| 14 | But his voice was calm as he said , ‘ I told you to yell at me , but I did n't think you would . |
| 15 | Juanito shook his head clear as he rounded on Trent . |
| 16 | Connolly told me over the intercom to stand clear as he was about to press the button of the destructor switch for the I.F.P. gear . |
| 17 | While the prospect of reconciliation between the king and the archbishop grew , it did so because on the one hand the papal ruling on royal taxation of the clergy had been relaxed , while on the other the king 's relations with his leading magnates were now rapidly deteriorating as he sought to raise and pay for an expeditionary force to Flanders . |
| 18 | ‘ This much , ’ the Inca reputedly replied , his arm indicating a line as high as he could reach . |
| 19 | At first he was like a man who thinks he smells gas or a fire , his body alert and his head held high as he looked quickly round the carriage . |
| 20 | It was three times as high as he was . |
| 21 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 22 | Lovro won Matačić , whose reputation was never quite as high as he deserved , remained the conductor . |
| 23 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 24 | Almost as high as he is . |
| 25 | He told Beattie to climb as high as he could and watch what happened , but not to join in the fighting . |
| 26 | UNITED States Labour Secretary Robert Reich today said that the Clinton administration had created one million new jobs , but admitted their quality is not as high as he would like . |
| 27 | The Independent , still at 45p , has put on sales this week , but circulation manager Brian Hutt said they were not as high as he would have normally expected in a week when many people were returning from holiday . |
| 28 | Walking one day down a London street , arms outstretched as he day-dreamt that he was Leander swimming the Hellespont , he was accused by a man whose coat he touched of being a pick-pocket . |
| 29 | Paralysed as he was , his elder brother Edwin could never father a child . |
| 30 | Just one glance had told Muldoon that they were very far from being as generous as he had encouraged Mark to believe . |