Example sentences of "his [noun sg] as [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although no longer involved in detailed management of the business , Kerrey had frequently cited his experience gained from establishing his business as among his qualifications for the presidency . |
| 2 | She was as thrilled by his daring as by his actions . |
| 3 | Raconteur and raisonneur , in his art as in his personal life , he is a concealed author who is evident enough in his hotly opinionated fiction : he is not given to expounding his own passionate opinions there , but can be recognised without difficulty in almost every aspect of every one of his novels , including the speech assigned to his often disputatious characters . |
| 4 | His advice as to her speech before a selection committee ( ‘ Take my tip , Ama , ’ he had said , ‘ three parts to a good speech . |
| 5 | Laura was astounded , as much by the cynical scorn in his voice as by his words . |
| 6 | Peter Gabriel 's commitment to world music is well known : here the political elements in his work , usually understated , were pushed well forward so that you wound up as moved by his concern as by his skill . |
| 7 | He was creating something new , as much in his restaurant as in his cookery writing . |
| 8 | In the imperfect world , where things get misunderstood , a woman has to realise that when she returns from the kitchen with a toasted sandwich and her man barks , ‘ I said cheese and tomato , not just cheese ! ’ he is probably not so much worried about his stomach as about her hearing . |
| 9 | Nietzsche , then , was as aware of the dangers on his path as of its necessity . |
| 10 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 11 | and he wants the same facility with his left as with his right . |