Example sentences of "[be] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know where it could be as he felt no pain except a slight stitch when he did aerobics . |
| 2 | There was nothing analytical in the experience , only a sense of wonder that things should be as he saw them and , in particular , that he should be involved . |
| 3 | The hut seemed to be as he had last seen it except that the settee had been pulled out from the wall to the centre of the room . |
| 4 | And no doubts , never any doubts at all , that men thought as he would have them think , and would always be as he had always known them . |
| 5 | ‘ God granting , everything shall be as he wishes . |
| 6 | So he did not wish greatly to eat , although he did , and he kept the same singing pitch running through his being as he talked quietly with Tuathal and Eochaid and the others about what was to be done ; which meant what Siward would do . |
| 7 | And erm being as he put a new table in the mill he thought we could work for thirty pound a week less , on this table . |
| 8 | Well being as he tried to squash me twice behind the back door . |
| 9 | But it did n't prevent her struggling , and he noticed how tiny her wrists were as he tightened the cord until it bit deep into her thin flesh . |
| 10 | If the facts actually were as he believed them to be , he would be entitled to act as he did . |
| 11 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 12 | Compelled to move at last he crossed over and glanced casually into the pharmacist 's as he passed . |
| 13 | Fabbiano was standing off to the side , his arm raised like a parade marshal 's as he directed the models off stage . |
| 14 | Like erm , like Maureen she 's erm she 's worried for Joe , she says he do n't stop , he do n't , but you see the difference being is it 's Joe 's business and it 's as he said , some people do n't pay you for twelve months , and a lot of your money has gone out before you can get a chance to get it back in |
| 15 | He wore a pencil moustache above which his nose twitched like a rabbit 's as he sniffed the wine glass he was holding . |
| 16 | Delaney countered , smothering the Russian 's arms as he came in close , face inches from the man 's as he yelled in Russian . |
| 17 | Three quick wickets went down early on the fourth morning , the first being Boon 's as he strolled a single , only to be embarrassed by keeper Pandit 's throw to the far end . |
| 18 | Provence is as he painted it , we use his images as icons by which to recognise certain things , the cypresses above all , the olives , some configurations of rock and vegetation , the line of the Alpilles , the plain of the Crau , the light itself . |
| 19 | Had their rough-and-tumbles not been as he recalled , had their Blind Man 's Buff ended differently ? |
| 20 | In Phekoo by contrast the Court of Appeal went directly to the general principle , asking themselves Brett 's question , ‘ What would the position of the accused have been if the facts had been as he believed them to be ? ’ |
| 21 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 22 | It had not been as he had dreamed at that time with the beloved of his youth : fame and glory , honour and victory . |
| 23 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 24 | I kept imagining him talking and laughing and thinking what his last thoughts would have been as he travelled along that road . ’ |
| 25 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 26 | Charity was as he had first known her , the chill turning to ice . |
| 27 | The following day , apart from lectures , he tramped the streets ; it was as he had foreseen , everywhere was full . |
| 28 | Lawyer A checked in his books , but said that it was as he had feared ‘ You are either insured or you are not . |
| 29 | It was as he had said . |
| 30 | Hotspur was as he had painted him . |