Example sentences of "to he as " in BNC.
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| 1 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |
| 2 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 3 | In 1977 the campaign was already afoot to choose the successor to him as General Secretary , with Moss Evans as the favourite . |
| 4 | It occurred to him as he turned them over that Nora Fanshawe — if she was Nora Fanshawe — probably stood to inherit a vast sum of money . |
| 5 | Angels — or ‘ angelicals ’ as he would have preferred to call them in his strange idiolect — were as real to him as omnibuses or mortgage repayments — and far more likely to obtrude into his consciousness . |
| 6 | Do n't leave your decision to the last moment — you should not expect your surveyor to hurry a report which can potentially save you thousands of pounds — talk to him as soon as you have chosen your purchase . |
| 7 | You and Osman , you and the Fry , though you have told me of your perfect freedom and exchange of ideas etc. were never freer than Edward and I. Sometimes I wonder that I can speak to him as I do , never before having known a boy , and having only you at times to ‘ let out , on . |
| 8 | Bingham ca n't take his eyes off Ali ; the still life of his friend , tethered so completely , seems as incomprehensible to him as it would to others who followed the radiated glow of Ali 's invulnerability . |
| 9 | In this sermon on prayer , I want us to think about prayer as a two-way conversation in which we talk to God and in which we listen to him as well . |
| 10 | He watched her throw back her head and laugh at something the policeman said , then move very close to him as he wrote something down in his book . |
| 11 | He wondered , briefly , whether it would be repulsive making love to an intersex , even one whose enhancements were as familiar to him as Zambia 's . |
| 12 | Charles made his subjects swear a new form of allegiance to him as emperor , the vow being administered to all people over the age of twelve : |
| 13 | A holiday-maker had once described the ascent to him as ‘ like going up to Heaven ’ . |
| 14 | It was as if , during the time when she had so strangely loved him , she had relied upon Patrick , hoped for him , dreamed of him , run to him as to his love for her : a love which had never existed and could now never exist . |
| 15 | He has first of all a touching proclivity to awe-struck admiration of whatever is presented to him as noble by a constituted authority ; and , secondly , a complete absence of any immediate reaction to a work of art until his judgement has thus been hypnotized by the voice of authority … |
| 16 | Elsewhere in his speech Gladstone specifically referred to the long runs of periodicals in the library as being of interest to him as he could not keep them in his own library . |
| 17 | I wonder if she has a problem with ‘ God ’ , it must drive her mad that so many people refer to him as ‘ He ’ . |
| 18 | His complete ignorance regarding horses , except how to ride them , came home to him as he sensed there was something wrong . |
| 19 | The disappearance had naturally been as much a mystery to him as anyone else … |
| 20 | He must also be made aware that although his parents or guardian will help him to do this , sooner or later he will have to manage to control himself without their help , and this should be explained to him as soon as he is able to understand . |
| 21 | Her voice , her body , her smell were as familiar to him as his own , but essentially he knew no more about her now than when she had arrived . |
| 22 | Mr Copley took an occasional service at St Andrew 's when Mr Smollett , the vicar , was on holiday , an involvement in church and village life which , Meg suspected , was as important to him as it was to the church . |
| 23 | A couple of sets of Scalar strings courtesy of Clive Norris at Selectron are winging their way to him as we speak . |
| 24 | Wearing a chic black costume and white fur wrap , she is seen waving to him as he departs for the colony before walking away to a smart car beside which stands a chauffeur . |
| 25 | She felt attracted to him as to Jesus . |
| 26 | Her ‘ crime ’ was not to write to him as he served his five-year prison sentence . |
| 27 | TODAY broke the news to him as he worked at Team Lotus 's offices in central London . |
| 28 | Wilkins is an excellent player , but the same rules should apply to him as the rest of us . ’ |
| 29 | By showing them that they mattered to Him as people He gave them a sense of dignity and released them from their captivity . |
| 30 | You can t falsely represent yourself to him as being authorised in some official capacity to enforce payment of the debt . |