Example sentences of "as he [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the youngest grandchild , however , and as he grew to be a hulking , noisy ten-year-old , his aging relatives found him very tiring . |
| 2 | To keep a pony in the middle of a town , and keep him fit , was hard work , as he had to be exercised every day , and the surrounding neighbourhood was hardly a horseman 's paradise . |
| 3 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 4 | Dr. Briant must abandon his project and restore to this unhappy baby his birthright , the chance to grow up in a real home , with real parents who will love him as he deserves to be loved . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's better , ’ he spits , cocky as he deserves to be . |
| 6 | She went , leaving John-William Dallam alone , as he wished to be , with his daughter . |
| 7 | In common with his former school chum Mike Rutherford , Ant ( as he likes to be known ) has a weakness for special tunings … |
| 8 | Marco 's father realises that the quick wits developed in the London slums and the boy 's everyday , practical good sense make him a perfect companion ( aide-de-camp , as he likes to be designated ) for the quietly ardent , reflective Marco . |
| 9 | ‘ Today , ’ he said solemnly , ‘ Mr Wilson , or Yusuf Khan as he likes to be sometimes known , is going to tell us how and why he became a Muslim . ’ |
| 10 | Jeremy Ring , or Jez as he likes to be called , has started receiving physiotherapy to help him recover from a motorbike accident . |
| 11 | Unemployed Dennis Keegan , or Brother Luke , as he likes to be known , is now well known on his council estate following his decision to joined the Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 12 | The promise of quality MoD jobs has faded , not so the redoubtable Mr Chris , as he likes to be known . |
| 13 | He could still recall the sense of dread that hung over him for days as he waited to be thrashed for that escapade . |
| 14 | As he looked to be of West Indian extraction , Amiss thought they might have a sensible chat about cricket . |
| 15 | just as cliché haunted Henry 's daily journey to the train , his socks from Marks and Spencers ' , his regular nightly bedtime , his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening , just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village , so his one existential act ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability . |
| 16 | Whatever it was , it was very tinkly and repetitive , and often , just as he seemed to be getting somewhere , Meredith broke off and started all over again . |
| 17 | Is he arguing — as he seemed to be before he lurched off into the quotation — that no examination result should be made available to Scottish parents ? |
| 18 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 19 | He got drunk that night , though not as drunk as he pretended to be . |
| 20 | Professor Dowd , as he liked to be called — and who cut his hair and trimmed his beard to look just like President Lincoln — probably never travelled to the Pacific , nor to very many other places outside America ; but he had an abiding interest in his country 's enormous and burgeoning railway system , and from that fascination grew a scheme which changed the world — and particularly the Pacific — for ever . |
| 21 | Angus– or Black Angus as he preferred to be called , eyed Cornelius with contempt . |
| 22 | JOHN ALCOCK , or Jack ; as he preferred to be called , was born in the early hours of November 5 , 1892 at . |
| 23 | As he claims to be able to speak seventeen languages , it would seem to work . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , if Red Hand is as mad as he claims to be . ’ |
| 25 | Rohmer still held Gilbert tight as he thrashed to be free . |
| 26 | But he was not as fast as he wanted to be . |
| 27 | One businessman accosted a senior officer , as he arrived to be interviewed by Central South about the level of policing in the village . |
| 28 | Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point , so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's there for as long as he wants to be , ’ said Eaton . |
| 30 | Here is a curious case of a foreigner already being hailed as an England batting hero long before he was qualified and thrust into the side as soon as he appeared to be . |