Example sentences of "as he is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ronald Kray really was as vile as he is herein depicted , he should have been put to death and swiftly forgotten . |
| 2 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 3 | Ira ( as he is universally known in Washington ) inspires limitless loyalty among his subordinates . |
| 4 | Clerke presumably returned to the Newfoundland fishery , as he is not found in the Armada lists . |
| 5 | Even Wat Tyler , the most famous of these , does not seem to have been involved in the earliest disturbances in Kent , as he is not mentioned in indictments dealing with disorder in Canterbury on 10 and 11 June , when the leader was John Hales of Malling . |
| 6 | As much as he is thoroughly yankified , known to all the world as Jimmy Lin , with his high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side and scarcely a trace of an accent , he none the less still feels a strong connection to his native island . |
| 7 | Life without ‘ Geech ’ , as he is affectionately known , is incomprehensible to many of a squad who have risen to world prominence as a direct result of his guidance . |
| 8 | Jed 's puzzling ploy of playing wing-forward Kevin Liddle in the three-quarters was vindicated as ‘ Lids ’ , as he is affectionately known at Riverside Park , contributed greatly to an entertaining and enthralling 80 minutes of open rugby from both sides . |
| 9 | High levels of spatial mobility are involved as he is regularly posted to regions where the multinational is operating . |
| 10 | Wainwright may play this weekend , McIntosh certainly will but London Scottish do not anticipate Sharp featuring in their first XV for the rest of the season as he is still troubled by his leg break . |
| 11 | Phil is an ardent Stoke City supporter and season ticket holder and colleagues joked me may need to ‘ get away from it all ’ as he is still trying to shrug off his team 's F.A . |
| 12 | There has been plenty of advice on what to stock and , as he is still learning about what Sutton Coldfield customers may want , he has been happy to listen . |
| 13 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 14 | The winner carried the famous ‘ Teaplanter ’ colours of owner Richard Russell who missed the ride as he is still recovering from a bad early season fall . |
| 15 | Father Wrench , however , as he is sometimes called — will never allow more than a proper quantity of either ale , wine or spirits … |
| 16 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 17 | However , as he is always telling us , he does not want local government to raise more cash . |
| 18 | ‘ The Old Pretender ’ , as he is commonly known , although at this time still only 19 , was a tall , dark figure , said to resemble Charles II in appearance , though not in character , for he was cold , reserved and prematurely pious , carrying candles in religious processions . |
| 19 | His successor , President Patricio Aylwin , has coped with that legacy not by trying soldiers for military murders , but by waiting for General Pinochet to discredit himself , as he is rapidly doing . |
| 20 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 21 | Just as he is about to follow MR . |
| 22 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 23 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 24 | ( Enter HAMLET behind , crossing the stage , reading a book — as he is about to disappear GUIL notices him . ) |
| 25 | He would have taken her to make it his own , just as he is now taking you . ’ |
| 26 | This ‘ methodical teacher ’ was blessed with two musically gifted children — Maria Anna , named after her mother but known as ‘ Nannerl ’ ( born 30/31 July 1751 ) — and Wolfgang Amadeus , as he is now known , ( born 27 January 1756 ) . |
| 27 | My son-in-law , being a solicitor , said it was too much like work , as he is constantly attending the funerals of clients in England . |
| 28 | The meeting with Mr Terreblanche — ‘ ET ’ as he is popularly known — is seen more as a public relations gesture than a meaningful initiative . |