Example sentences of "as he [was/were] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows all the villagers personally , and is as indispensable to me as he was to the previous twenty-seven Humanitarian Officers . |
| 2 | Let me now vouch for his kindness and generosity , for he was as good a friend to me as he was to dozens of others , not all of them writers . |
| 3 | He was almost as hostile to his own mother as he was to Elinor 's , even though the politesse observed by his family meant he had not yet worked out a way of expressing it . |
| 4 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |
| 5 | All this Lamprey saw , accustomed as he was to dealing with humanity . |
| 6 | The man was as insensitive to language as he was to people . |
| 7 | Most others insist that the young Richard got his looks from his mother , Edith , a fair-haired girl , taller by far than Dic , a sweet beauty , ‘ a very strong woman ’ , to whom her husband was absolutely faithful and utterly irresponsible : as he was to all his family . |
| 8 | The idea reflected his own frustrated desires , tied as he was to his duties at Ueni Hasan . |
| 9 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 10 | Mr Crumwallis looked at him in dyspeptic reproof , unused as he was to having his magisterial ramblings interrupted . |
| 11 | The son of parents ‘ in service ’ in Gloucestershire , Miles — as he was to be known universally within the underground and after — had interests which moved rapidly across from art into poetry . |
| 12 | ‘ Devoted to her ladyship , as he was to Sir John , you know . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes she hinted at young men , she teased him , but more and more , Parr became convinced that she was faithful — as he was to her — because she loved him . |