Example sentences of "[adv] as he be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 2 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 3 | At 60% of the price of a German worker , the Briton evidently has his advantages — so long as he is trained , managed and financed by foreigners . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , in regard to proceedings in court , the mere absence of UK qualifications will not disqualify an EC lawyer from acting so long as he is instructed with and acts in conjunction with a UK lawyer . |
| 5 | I decided to try for as long as he was trying . |
| 6 | But Fritz was n't too perturbed what his rooms were used for — so long as he was paid , and many factions and organizations , both political and criminal , operating in London used the Warehouse Hotel , as it was called , for their meetings . |
| 7 | But he said , thoughtfully , that he believed the Robemaker would weave anything so long as he was paid sufficiently highly . |
| 8 | Diniz Vasquez was not visible in the shouting throng of people with sacks , boxes and baskets that crowded the inner yard of the fort of Famagusta , although Nicholas scanned them all as he was led across it . |
| 9 | Dai Walter Jones ( no relation ) was given a job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ after being hospitalized for five years with a serious illness and with little prospect of finding employment elsewhere as he was approaching retirement age . |
| 10 | He fears , as this moving tableau blots out his view , that she does not want to look at him but , then , just as he is allowing himself this painful thought , she turns and kisses him on the eyes before taking his cock in her mouth . |
| 11 | In Four Quartets , Eliot is providing a consummation of the European tradition , just as he is offering a coherent account of his own poetic development . |
| 12 | And as they prepare for first division football he 's relishing another challenge , just as he 's looking forward to renewing acquaintances with certain Meath players today . |
| 13 | And because Pooh has learned this correlation , just as he 's learned that bees correlate with honey , Eeyore can tell Pooh that thistles are off simply by sighing , without using any language at all . |
| 14 | ‘ just as he was getting ready to go out on the town . |
| 15 | George frowned sharply , irritated at being stopped just as he was getting well into his stride . |
| 16 | ‘ He still is , the young idiot , and just as he was getting on his feet . |
| 17 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 18 | Just as he was beginning to get worried in case she had gone too far , she turned and swam back . |
| 19 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 20 | He was therefore scowling as he bumped into his own wife , who was coming out of the Russell Inn just as he was entering . |
| 21 | MARK Chapman was the nerd from hell who shot John Lennon just as he was entering his musical renaissance , born out of contentment at being just another drug-free millionaire house-husband . |
| 22 | Frankie Howerd : April 19 , aged 71 : ‘ Titter Ye Not ’ master of sexual innuendo and star of Up Pompeii , who died just as he was enjoying a big comeback . |
| 23 | It had been just as he was leaving on a Sunday evening . |
| 24 | Just as he was leaving , Paisley arrived and the meeting broke into cheering and clapping . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 26 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 27 | In a fit of temper he shot up past the runner , and just as he was reaching for a ledge above , the turf he was standing on performed its Velcro imitation and propelled the stunned climber into the air . |
| 28 | Julia came round just as he was erecting a kind of tent over her bed . |
| 29 | He had worked for various firms doing all sorts of jobs , for he was nothing if not adaptable , and recently , just as he was approaching retirement , the firm he worked for in Deptford had become bankrupt . |
| 30 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |