Example sentences of "as he had [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not afford to antagonize Anselm , but — with motives very similar to those which led Anselm to maintain the rights of his see as he had received them from his predecessors — he had no intention of abandoning any rights enjoyed by his father and brother . |
| 2 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 3 | The first great movement of the Holy Spirit was felt at a meeting held in Mr John Montgomery 's field in Edenderry where a young man was describing the work of God as he had seen it in Ballymena . |
| 4 | For some reason she had snatched up her bag as he had dragged her by the stall ; she remembered seeing Matey 's grieving face , Matey 's hand on his arm , Matey saying , ‘ No , Neil , no . |
| 5 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 6 | They had all learned from him ; she and Lisa still spoke , stylistically , as he had taught them to . |
| 7 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 8 | One remembered again the anger in his eyes as he had faced her across the table . |
| 9 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 10 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 11 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 12 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 13 | He would free himself from this enslavement , sweet as it was , as he had freed himself from Hilary . |
| 14 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 15 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 16 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 17 | She recalled his expression as he had accused her of knowing where Garry was , and she knew he was n't the kind of man to give up easily . |
| 18 | But as soon as he had reminded himself of his motive , it rang as hollow to him as he felt sure it must to others . |
| 19 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |
| 20 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 21 | It was unoccupied , as he had expected it to be . |
| 22 | She came in five minutes later , just as he had brought himself under control , and quietly slipped into his bed . |
| 23 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
| 24 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |
| 25 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |