Example sentences of "he was [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cooke recalled how , like everyone else , he was utterly baffled as to how the pollsters could have got it all so wrong — until , a few days later , he found himself in a train sitting opposite a Republican county chairman . |
| 2 | In the same month he was officially diagnosed as narcoleptic . |
| 3 | By the rulers of the ancient provinces of Abyssinia and by the nobility as a whole he was universally accepted as Emperor . |
| 4 | In June 1985 , when he was already established as one of Scottish football 's most persistent goalscorers , McAvennie left St Mirren for £340,000 and joined West Ham . |
| 5 | He was just remounting as she reined in . |
| 6 | He was later named as one of Wisden 's five players of the year after the tour had ended . |
| 7 | He was later diagnosed as having Graves Disease , a thyroid ailment , and he now takes a daily synthetic thyroid hormone pill and a blood-thinning drug . |
| 8 | He was narrowly returned as Prime Minister after the 1987 general election , but was ejected from office in July 1988 after being defeated in a motion of no confidence by Namaliu 's supporters . |
| 9 | He puts his arms round her , and insists that he was partly to blame as well . |
| 10 | He was widely regarded as having one of the most brilliant minds in the Royal Navy . |
| 11 | Although the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl denied ever promising a 1:1 rate during the election campaign [ see p. 37301 ] , he was widely perceived as having breached an election promise . |
| 12 | He was also presented as exemplifying the qualities for unifying supporters of philanthropic activity , ‘ a churchman in faith , in charity a universalist ’ . |
| 13 | By 1368 he was also described as ‘ the Bishop 's Mason ’ and was granted lands by Bishop Thomas Hatfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | In modem history as it affected his class he was well informed as ever , and had a memory overflowing with detail . |
| 15 | He was subsequently diagnosed as having Graves 's disease . |
| 16 | He was recently quoted as saying : ‘ I 've got a terrible habit when people bring in a picture and say they want to look like that — I invariably tear it up in front of them . |
| 17 | Not only that ; Mordecai was equally definite that he was merely doing as he had been instructed . |
| 18 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 19 | He was twice employed as Langton 's envoy to England , and in 1213 , at the end of the interdict , returned to Canterbury as Langton 's steward . |
| 20 | He was therefore scowling as he bumped into his own wife , who was coming out of the Russell Inn just as he was entering . |
| 21 | Even though the defendant knew the names and addresses of all customers , the quality of contact was not of the degree required in order to establish that he was ever regarded as " being the business " or even had any influence over the customers . |
| 22 | Treated as a wayward child who at the same time was exceedingly precocious , he was considerably indulged as long as he continued to sow confusion in Rommel 's back yard . |
| 23 | Zahedis chateau Lafite and other vintage were pouted into the embassy fountain , and he was publicly denounced as having bribed congressmen and journalists with drugs and call girls . |
| 24 | With specific regard to Franco , he was now seen as militarily and personally indispensable to a rebel victory . |
| 25 | He was initially classified as having low microalbuminuria and remained so at withdrawal . |
| 26 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 27 | He was still seen as tied to the ranks of the bourgeoisie by an umbilical cord that he had failed to sever . |
| 28 | He was still talking as he propelled her through the door and back along the corridor towards the exit , barely pausing for breath , and giving her no chance at all to interrupt . |
| 29 | He waited as the final farewells were taken , and he was still waiting as the train pulled away . |