Example sentences of "[verb] as he [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surrounded as he was by flatterers and sycophants , Constantius may have disposed of some of the land as rewards for service and information , but he needed money to recoup the heavy losses in his army . |
| 2 | Surrounded as he was by the glamour of the acting world , he could pick and choose from the world 's most beautiful women — women like Marianne , with her lush body and provocative , slanting green eyes . |
| 3 | However , you of all people know how erratic are his movements , moved as he is by guilt and persecution . |
| 4 | The police driver shot Jamie a look of enquiry which he missed , occupied as he was with guiding Miss Williams back up the hill . |
| 5 | It was obvious that power was exerting its hold over him ; he was losing his grip on reality , possessed as he was by the illusion that perestroika was developing widely . ’ |
| 6 | When it poured down incessantly he saw only too clearly how he had got stuck , was at an impasse , handicapped as he was in so many respects . |
| 7 | Westmacott could not follow as he was under attack by the Bf109s , but the Controller later reported that the bomber 's ‘ plot ’ had disappeared from the radar screen halfway to Sicily , and Westmacott was awarded a probable . |
| 8 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | The other cause of the present crisis was Ben , a man of few principles , whose only view of life was through the bottom of a tankard , riddled as he was with guilt and arrogance . |
| 10 | Lord Anson , bombarded as he was from all directions by demands for favours , was hard to move towards action , and Lieutenant Home no doubt felt it would be a case of out of sight out of mind . |
| 11 | Where the lower orders of life have to make do with conditioned reflexes which so operate on behaviour as to limit conflict to levels that do not threaten the species , man — blessed as he is with free will — must institutionalise or die . |
| 12 | From this small dukedom he managed to prosper , employed as he was in a business which required a few choice contacts , a nose for the changing taste of his market , and an ability to conceal his pleasure at his achievements . |
| 13 | The idea reflected his own frustrated desires , tied as he was to his duties at Ueni Hasan . |
| 14 | Whatever Shakespeare 's source or inspiration , Pistol is a brilliant invention , locked as he is in a verse-form and range of reference derived from the heroical plays in the London theatres of the 1580s and 1590s , as far removed as could be from his debased reality . |
| 15 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 16 | In my view the trial judge , dealing as he was with a most difficult and distressing case under the necessity to give a decision immediately , did not sufficiently take into account the degree of pressure required to constitute undue influence in the case of a patient in the position of Miss T. I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that there is abundant evidence which would justify this court in coming to the conclusion that she was subjected to the undue influence of her mother which vitiated her decision . |
| 17 | He lived in Notting Hill Gate , in a house he 'd bought cheaply in the late fifties , which he now seldom left , touched as he was by agoraphobia , or , as he preferred it , ‘ a perfectly rational fear of anyone I ca n't blackmail ’ . |
| 18 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 19 | He was carrying his billhook and was dressed as he was on that last dreadful autumn afternoon , a singlet stained with his sweat , the shorts high cut , showing as he walked the bulge of the scrotum , the white legs , matted with black hair from the knees down . |
| 20 | They certainly must have thought Malcolm was fishy , dressed as he was in black leather from head to toe . |
| 21 | THE policemen on the gate of Downing Street would normally have told him to clear off , dressed as he was in an ill-fitting tweed jacket and blue moon boots — and was n't that an ice-axe in his right hand ? |
| 22 | Michelet was now reinstated , and indeed elevated during this crisis to ‘ Father Michelet ’ , faced as he was with a father painfully unwilling to advise him . |
| 23 | The years 1182–3 were to be the maker-break crisis of Richard 's rule in Aquitaine , faced as he was by so many enemies . |
| 24 | He ignored her questions , or perhaps he did n't even hear them , engrossed as he was in making his point . |
| 25 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 26 | Neither horse will have the benefit of their usual riding partners as Cumani 's stable-jockey , Ray Cochrane , last night gave up his weekend rides as he was in pain from the shoulder injury sustained in the Doncaster pile-up three weeks ago . |
| 27 | He answered a letter from America saying Toad was n't really altered as he was in my story , he was never going to be good . |
| 28 | Only Morrissey looked the part , ensconced as he was in a wild celebration of his now successful madness . |