Example sentences of "[pers pn] as he [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So immediately , the reader feels that this is a good woman , whom any man should be proud to have as a wife , and therefore rather annoyed that the Reverend Crawley seems not to value her as he ought . |
| 2 | He eased her as he could . |
| 3 | The word flailed her as he must surely have intended . |
| 4 | Yet still , stare about him as he might , they refused to yield their meaning . |
| 5 | Again , she felt she was only entertaining him as he might have been entertained by a clever child . |
| 6 | If he has the support of the prime minister and main political colleagues , he can decide any matter which comes before him as he may think expedient . |
| 7 | When the tears sprang from his eyes and nose and his body shook as with an ague , Mick put his arms about him and , pulling him round , cradled him as he would a child , saying , ‘ There ! |
| 8 | He spoke to him as he would to his own son , undeferentially , as one adult to another . |
| 9 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | William Wellman , who directed Beau Geste in 1939 , said of Brian Donlevy , who played the sadistic sergeant in that film , ‘ I 've never seen a guy that could completely get everybody to dislike him as he could . ’ |
| 12 | Quiss experienced the tiniest moment of fear , then savage anger , and was about to go down fighting — take as many of the little bastards with him as he could — when he realised that they were bowing and wringing their hands and making apologetic noises , not howling angry ones . |
| 13 | Unable to see God as he is , he can not trust him as he should , and doubt is the result . |
| 14 | Satan , in short , aims to take as many of us with him as he can . |
| 15 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 16 | With the present favourite , Carvill 's Hill , 9-2 for next year 's race there is no incentive to back him as he will not run if the ground is firm , while the 5-1 second favourite-last year 's winner , Desert Orchid-is unlikely to run in any case . |
| 17 | She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock . |
| 18 | A person may say that he feels a pain in his foot , but it is obvious that he does not feel it as he might feel a pin in his foot . |
| 19 | He said it as he might have said , I have cancer . |
| 20 | The wheelchair provides the ideal type of support , as the patient can not lean on it as he would on a walking frame , because the chair would tip up . |
| 21 | Treat it as he would any ordinary issue and any ordinary criminal . |
| 22 | The jet has a high bottom line , the operator has to find as much work for it as he can to spread its costs and make a profitable . |
| 23 | He must be caught in it as he could n't possibly have had time to get back to where he was staying yet . |
| 24 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |
| 25 | I had bestowed myself on Nour , and from now on he could do with me as he would . |
| 26 | But it was clear that he wanted to make as much money out of me as he could . |
| 27 | His ‘ ardour … for his books of chivalry ’ ( OMF iii 5 ) is described in Cervantes ' first chapter : ‘ so great was his curiosity and infatuation in this regard that he even sold many acres of tillable land in order to be able to buy and read the books that he loved , and he would carry home with him as many of them as he could obtain . ’ |
| 28 | Would he , I wonder , dine with us as he used to do ? ’ |
| 29 | But I did n't er I think his teaching days , he was getting rather old and he did n't control us as he should have been able to . |