Example sentences of "as he [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there . |
| 2 | It unrolled as he tugged it across the bedroom floor , and inside was the blood-soaked corpse of Maria Shill . |
| 3 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 4 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 5 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 6 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 7 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 8 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 9 | La democrasserie , as he called it in a letter to Taine . |
| 10 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |
| 11 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 12 | His central point , as he put it before the National Press Club on May 4th , was that ‘ you certainly ca n't help Hong Kong by hurting our economy . ’ |
| 13 | Kahn reckoned that a plan either to make them sell their shares or to force a swap of the shares for shares in a newly-formed corporation called Velcro Reorganisation NV was ‘ in effect Hobson 's choice , ’ as he put it in an affidavit filed with a New York Federal district court . |
| 14 | Ronni felt her blood leap and burn within her as he held it for a moment , squeezing gently , then , almost as though the gesture was an afterthought , allowing his thumb to graze lightly against the burning peak . |
| 15 | Somehow he had pulled free the phosphorus grenade , detonating it as he held it against the stinking flesh of the mercifully unseen horror that was ripping him apart . |
| 16 | As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance . |
| 17 | As he threw it into the sea , watching the water swallow up his past month 's work , he thought of all the walking he was soon to do . |
| 18 | She blew smoke serenely as he flicked it at the wall . |
| 19 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 20 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 21 | ‘ Must n't forget that , ’ he commented as he set it on the table and , with a glow of pride , Mildred walked away arm-in-arm with the two most important people at the celebrations , to have a proper old-fashioned tea by the nearest bonfire . |
| 22 | Holding it back with his shoulder and managing the flashlight under his arm , Forester took one of the cards and forced it into the gap , feeling it bend stiffly as he pushed it around the edge of the door . |
| 23 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |