Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 2 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 3 | Bombs went off as he had been warned that they would . |
| 4 | Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery . |
| 5 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |