Example sentences of "as it was he " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was he had to be satisfied with a rise of 48 per cent to £514,558 , well below the highest-paid public company boss , Lord Hanson , who received £1.5million for his efforts . |
| 2 | Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him . |
| 3 | Near the close , Holding began to lay about him and was dropped off a skyer ; next morning he continued in the same vein to ensure his team a first innings lead , and ensure , too , that Bob Willis 's Test career would end on an unhappy note as it was he who took most of the stick . |
| 4 | In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life . |
| 5 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 6 | As it was he had obviously grown tired of the regular struggles and gone off to find someone who gave in more readily . |
| 7 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 8 | As it was he had to find his own way out of an embrace involving him far more seriously than he intended . |
| 9 | It was ironic , especially as it was he who was causing her world to come crashing about her head . |
| 10 | In Bartlett v. Sydney Marcus ( 1965 C.A. ) the seller , a car dealer , told the buyer that the car had a defective clutch and that if he bought it as it was he could have it for £550 but that if the seller were to repair it first , the price would be £575 . |
| 11 | It was certainly an eventful day for Eddis as it was he who put Comrades further in front on 27 minutes , heading in from close range after Grant was unable to hold Philip Leckey 's firmly struck angled shot . |
| 12 | As it was he was still asleep upstairs and never saw his dad bury him … and I could bawl unseen to my heart 's content . |