Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump . |
| 2 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 3 | The friar turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 5 | A shiver ran up my spine and into my scalp , as I realized he was singing ‘ Mary from Dunloe ’ . |
| 6 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 7 | As far as I remember he nodded in his own particularly grave yet twinkling way and that was that , I may have mentioned it again , in which case he said very little more than , ‘ We 've already discussed it . ’ |
| 8 | Far as I remember he called me a nasty name and I slapped his wrist . ’ |
| 9 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
| 10 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 11 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 12 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 13 | I can still picture him as I knew him , his sensitive , ascetic face etched with lines of pain but lit by his innate kindliness , his lean body in comfortable country tweeds . |
| 14 | Sir Eustace Maxwell has turned traitor , as I knew he would , and has joined Balliol 's host there , with his own people from Caerlaverock and Dumfries and also the Comyn and Balliol levies from Galloway . |
| 15 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 16 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 17 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
| 18 | As far as I knew he 's at present on the Charlotte T. — all our ships are called something T. , as you probably know — on a trip to Hamburg . " |
| 19 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 20 | Devastated … he 's completely smashed me to bits , she thought , just as I knew he would . |
| 21 | My heart sank ( again , not literally ! ) as I heard him say , ‘ Right then , I 'm sure you 'll work with Brian today , wo n't you David ? ’ |
| 22 | As soon as I heard he wanted to work we got going . |
| 23 | Everything became bitingly clear to me as soon as I saw him turn round sharply and stare at me . |
| 24 | As soon as I saw him I knew you 'd love him . ’ |
| 25 | I still remember him as I saw him then . |
| 26 | I knew your Papa was the one as soon as I saw him . |
| 27 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 28 | I shall beam on him as I serve him lunch and if the old bastard is particularly unpleasant I 'll be able to reflect on how bad he 'll feel when he 's unmasked . |
| 29 | I liked him as soon as I met him and came to do so even more over the ensuing months . |
| 30 | As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance . |