Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 2 | Fry claimed he was sacked by Flashman but the latter responded by saying Fry has a job at Underhill for as long as he wants it . |
| 3 | The head said that that would be the case and that Balbinder would stay for as long as he needed their help . |
| 4 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 5 | He too had been strictly brought up but seems to have shrugged off his mother 's influence in that as easily as he resisted her attempts to make him a practising Jew . |
| 6 | ‘ You may find this job a little … unusual , ’ he said , choosing his words as carefully as he picked his way through stacks of jerrycans , bundles of wire , and anonymous green sacks . |
| 7 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 8 | No , he had n't but as far as he knew there was no music on there still . |
| 9 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 10 | Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied . |
| 11 | He never hit a bad shot off the tee ; it just did n't come back as far as he thought it would . |
| 12 | When Dad joined us Albert greeted him just as pleasantly as he had me , and I thought at least they 're all happy this morning . |
| 13 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 14 | But if he knew his Commander as well as he thought he did , there would be little chance of that . |
| 15 | She hoped he spoke English as well as he wrote it and she hoped too that his slightly censorious tone did not surface as he met her in Paris . |
| 16 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 17 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 18 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 19 | Memories of shared evenings , with cans of beer and football on the TV , flooded back to Bodie ; shared hours with Ray Doyle , mad pursuits , of cars , of women , shared jokes , anger , support ; he knew this small apartment almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 20 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 21 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 22 | Well , Ace knocked that little idea flat but unfortunately himself as well as he hit his head on the door-frame trying to seek sanctuary in the pits . ’ |
| 23 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 24 | Perhaps it would be just as well if he paid her another visit . |
| 25 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 26 | Jackson , who is to give two sell-out concerts at the gigantic Fukuoka Dome on Friday and Saturday , left town almost as fast as he entered it . |
| 27 | This might seem a somewhat unusual thing to do , but if Mr Cleese can resurrect his dead mother as frequently as he does his dead parrot then she will have a busy afterlife . |