Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He were that as well . |
| 2 | He is also as keen a European as you will find on the Government benches , especially the front bench . |
| 3 | With his stylish , imaginative vitality and very fleet fingers , he is certainly as persuasive an advocate for the fortepiano — and again he uses a Derek Adlam instrument ‘ after ’ a Nanette Streicher of 1815 P as anyone in the catalogue . |
| 4 | They also think he must be dominant , decisive and virile but he 's not , he 's just as he is on the field . |
| 5 | " He 's probably as hung over as I am , but still , if he does n't get here soon , there 'll be no breakfast . " |
| 6 | But he 's here as well ! |
| 7 | John at teatime is talking to veteran D J Paul about the best records of all time and musician Edward who 's playing at the Old Vic tonight , he 's on as well . |
| 8 | He was ultimately as much an oracle , a high priest , a pope , a spiritual leader , as he was a king . |
| 9 | This was terrible ; he was exactly as she had envisaged . |
| 10 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 11 | He was exactly as I remembered him , that June night after our fishing . |
| 12 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |
| 13 | She was glad when Westerfield church hove into view and sensed that he was just as relieved . |
| 14 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 15 | ‘ And last night when you spoke to him he was just as usual ? ’ |
| 16 | He was n't as well known as John Eastman or Alan Klein but he was a nice guy . ’ |
| 17 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 18 | Wilberforce was not the only representative of Anglican opinion , and even he was not as obscurantist as is sometimes implied . |
| 19 | He had begun to suspect that , despite his many years of unstinting service to the Party in both Warwickshire and Westminster , he was not as loved as he once had been . |
| 20 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 21 | He was secretly as excited about this new Polruan ship as anyone else . |
| 22 | Today ( a wet Monday ) he was up as usual at 6.30 and had a few cornflakes and a pint of coffee . |
| 23 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 24 | But once I saw him lumbering down Ward Street , you know , opposite , and he was here as well , messing around with the television . |
| 25 | He was early as usual . |
| 26 | Instead I concluded he was about as frightened of death as I am so why , in the good Lord 's name , did he get up and bore us stiff telling us different ? |
| 27 | It is not clear whether the condition Smart is describing was purely physical , or of a psychotic nature , but two verses suggest he was mentally as well as physically afflicted in 1756 : |
| 28 | But in 1132 he was back as chancellor , though he never aspired to the influence of his earlier days , and the more sober ecclesiastics of the court , in alliance with the papacy , managed to keep him out of a bishopric . |
| 29 | He was never as happy , it should be added , about the CNAA 's institutional scrutiny , which he considered to have dealt out a ‘ rough justice , . |
| 30 | He was there as chairman of the World of Work Committee of the Bishops ' Conference of England and Wales to tell the many thousands who were resent despite pouring rain that human dignity ‘ demands that all who can must be able to work to support themselves and their families ’ . |