Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , come the Mercedes German Masters at Stuttgart in early October , Torrance was still striking the ball magnificently and , as he had warned for months , the putter came good . |
| 2 | Throughout Marx 's work he stresses , as he had done for labour , the fantastic nature of the capitalist concept of property , the fantastic notion that there is something of our personality in the things or places we own . |
| 3 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 4 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 5 | Anne Nielson was an extraordinary woman , as he had known for years . |
| 6 | Mike , however , had travelled north , leaving his pregnant girlfriend with relatives in the safety of a Harare suburb as he went looking for another war . |
| 7 | De Gaulle 's interest in this reform picked up noticeably in the spring of 1962 , as he began to look for ways of heading off parliamentary moves to reduce his role . |
| 8 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 9 | As he waited to pose for photographers drinking a glass of water in a City bank , Mr Howard said the Government 's calculations had been overtaken by the surge in the stock market . |
| 10 | He took a pride in his job and he did n't mind how many hours he put in as long as he got paid for them . |
| 11 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 12 | Pouring the wine , just as he 'd done for Marianne Novaks . |
| 13 | I 'd make it me business to er yes and course it was to his trade good jobs as he 'd done for customers , had it done so well , they told somebody else and it brought in trade , see what I mean ? |
| 14 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
| 15 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 16 | As he sat waiting for Karlinsky to appear , looking around him he could see other men 's sons , boys of Jacob 's age , sitting with their fathers . |
| 17 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 18 | As he stood waiting for the kettle to boil , he reflected that he had nothing so good and lavish as he had observed through the open door of Mrs Farmer 's kitchen . |
| 19 | The elder brother was shot in the stomach as he knelt pleading for mercy . |