Example sentences of "as he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Partridge , who acts as guide , as boots , postilion , and boatman , at the Salutation Inn , might have brought us down an easier descent ; but as he had been out with a chaise all night , he was perhaps induced , from fatigue , to take us the nearest way . |
| 2 | The writer was Ford Madox Ford , who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound 's friends ; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound . |
| 3 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 4 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 5 | It was patently obvious to Klepner , now that he had read the plan , that the European trade environment was not as he had been led to believe . |
| 6 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 7 | But Maher could not ride Craganour in the Derby as he had been claimed for Lord Rosebery 's Prue , and the favourite was partnered by the American jockey Johnny Reiff . |
| 8 | The king himself had strongly favoured the Auld Alliance with France , particularly as he had been able to use it so much to his advantage , and had certainly upheld the Catholic church . |
| 9 | The significant features of Arazi 's victory over Supermec and River Majesty were that the knee operation carried out last November appeared to have no effects and , this time , the colt was not racing on medication , as he had been when winning the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile . |
| 10 | Every word of it had been a lie and to this truth Trent remained as totally committed now , close to his own death , as he had been when plotting the downfall of the groups he had penetrated . |
| 11 | Burn 's nephew , MacVicar Anderson , ensured that Burn was as secretive about his methods of house planning in death as he had been in life . |
| 12 | The man replied no , but that as he had been born and brought up at Moor of Rannoch , he had every right to call himself Scot . |
| 13 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 14 | To his horror Henry saw that as he had been brushing her teeth he had started to grip her neck , hard . |
| 15 | He was just as fussy on the North Shore as he had been in France . |
| 16 | Would he go to heaven , as he had been engaged upon a holy war , or would his sins , unforgiven , weigh against him ? |
| 17 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |
| 18 | Tom Poole , who had nursed his father devotedly at the end , was in low spirits , but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting . |
| 19 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 20 | James Kilpatrick had lost his share in the horse but he was well satisfied as he had been truly vindicated . |
| 21 | James planned a diversionary landing in Scotland and Major-General William Buchan was sent to Dunkirk with such few troops as he had been able to assemble to sail direct to Aberdeenshire . |
| 22 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |
| 23 | Arthur Hutton , it was reported , was ‘ highly delighted ’ , as he had been planting the hedge as agent for his cousin George , Allison Hutton 's son . |
| 24 | The dean in his address expressed his pleasure in installing the new mayor , especially as he had been asked to serve as his chaplain during the mayor 's year of office . |
| 25 | Whatever the extent of his self-inflicted frailty , I 'd never seen him as good-tempered as he had been recently , or as nervously loquacious . |
| 26 | He could drink good wine ; eat French food superlatively cooked , and apparently available in abundance ; be waited upon as he had been waited upon in the old days before the war , by a succession of polite , quiet , efficient , well-trained servants , all of whom were Arab , all of whom spoke perfect French . |
| 27 | In Scotland Horne was made Assistant to the Director as he had been ‘ acting Director ’ since 1899 when Howell retired . |
| 28 | Consul Veitch was later removed from his post for addressing Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of ‘ General ’ , as he had been instructed by London . |
| 29 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 30 | They were all there , as he had been told they would be . |