Example sentences of "[noun] as he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am confident that when he reaches his teens he will challenge and possibly reject religion as he will earlier have rejected his other fantasies . |
| 2 | It embarrassed him to be sitting so close to the rector 's wife and he kept as far to the side as he could so that no one would think he was enjoying her company . |
| 3 | It was as clear an indication as he could ever have wished for that Hope was not primarily interested in the immense dowry . |
| 4 | ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately . |
| 5 | He concluded by telling Scott that there was no need to hurry with the revised elevations as he would only be asking Parliament to vote sufficient for the foundations during the present session . |
| 6 | Thus , any income arising in the settlement prior to the claim would be assessed on the settlor and any income arising after the claim would cease to be taxed upon the settlor as he would then cease to have the right to receive any benefit from the settlement . |
| 7 | He 'd no longer have anything to lose , and a rat like that is very liable to drag down as many people as he can once he knows he has to go . |
| 8 | Now it was Ferreira 's turn to show his frustration , often slamming his racket to the ground in anger as he could only muster 11 points in a set lasting only 20 minutes . |
| 9 | If he 's in police custody as he may well be by now they 'll never let her see him , ’ Hugo said . |
| 10 | ‘ Until I can reassure our workers I am a little concerned that Ho might — might not make as many friends as he would otherwise do . |
| 11 | ‘ What are dialectics ? ’ said Anthony , looking for his agent 's kit-bag and make-up case on the baggage trolley at Frankfurt Airport and speaking with as much truculence as he could ever muster . |
| 12 | He put his head as near the bars as he could so that they did not obstruct his view . |
| 13 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 14 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 15 | Unlike most doctors , he saw it , not as the final enemy , but as a fascinating enigma , each cadaver , which he would gaze at with the same intent look as he must once have fixed on his living patients , a new piece of evidence which might , if rightly interpreted , bring him closer to its central mystery . |
| 16 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 17 | Because of his working hours he is not giving as much time as he ought perhaps to his family , although he 's always tried to ensure that weekends are devoted to his children . |
| 18 | By now Heseltine has probably got about as much mileage out of such occasions as he can reasonably expect . |
| 19 | Frere watched him go , and such hopes as he might briefly have entertained receded with the clop of hooves . |