Example sentences of "as i [vb mod] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be guilty of theft the offender , as I shall call him , must act dishonestly and must have the intention of permanently depriving the owner of property . |
| 2 | He shook his head as much as I would allow him to . |
| 3 | The snow was banked in humps at the roadside but I pulled in as much as I could to let him pass . |
| 4 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 5 | If I find out different , I 'll kill you , as I will kill him ! ’ |
| 6 | I mean he does n't want for nothing , he gets as much as I can give him . |
| 7 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 8 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |