Example sentences of "[det] as he [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had tackled her about Pascoe and , although she had reacted much as he 'd expected , perhaps she would think it over and do what he advised . |
| 2 | But he had not missed it as much as he 'd thought he might . |
| 3 | The herring looked delicious but he was n't at all sure he was going to enjoy it as much as he 'd thought . |
| 4 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 5 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 6 | Proceeding much as he had done with his houses , Edouard first refurbished them . |
| 7 | Indeed , very much as he had imagined it . |
| 8 | He had fantasized about her death almost as much as he had fantasized about Elinor 's . |
| 9 | However , glancing at Pat , it seemed to have gone pretty much as he had expected . |
| 10 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 11 | He let her see just as much as he wanted to reveal , and no more . |
| 12 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 13 | He had not quietened down at all as he had grown older — far from it — and could not now be still for a single moment . |
| 14 | Wainfleet refused to tell her any more as he wanted to pump her about Hunter-Blair . |
| 15 | She was sitting beside Ken , who looked depressingly the same as he had done the previous night . |
| 16 | Miller believed Bartram 's Dwarf Cherry to be the same as he had figured ; he had received the stones via Paris and Canada and , easily propagated , it was now common in gardens . |
| 17 | Little as he wanted to do anything about it , the boy 's babyishness , his Fauntleroy air , embarrassed and distantly annoyed him : it seemed to reflect on his own manhood . |
| 18 | A meeting of all the tourists would be summoned straightaway ( Ashenden felt a pair of unblinking blue eyes upon him ) — summoned to meet somewhere in the hotel ( the Manager nodded again — the St John 's Suite was free ) , and Morse himself would then address the group and tell them as much or as little as he wanted to tell them , believing , he admitted , that Rumour had probably lost little of her sprinting speed since Virgil 's time , and that most of the tourists already had a pretty good idea of what had happened . |
| 19 | The sky was dark and threatening and Felipe had looked like that as he 'd left the house . |