Example sentences of "that he [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letters he wrote to her are more reminiscent of his earliest letters than anything else that he wrote as archbishop . |
| 2 | A quick peep at Silas showed that he scowled as if displeased about something . |
| 3 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 4 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 5 | The minister said that he felt as if he were being pursued by a wild animal and could only throw off his clothes to distract its attention . |
| 6 | It was only for the last three years of his life , from 1630 to 1633 , that he served as a country parson , as Vicar of Bemerton in Wiltshire and Canon of Salisbury . |
| 7 | It is a testament to Butler 's skill that he served as Private Secretary to both Edward Heath and Harold Wilson and , even more impressively , stayed the course as Principal Private Secretary under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | He became more concerned with specialization within a given environment , a process that he saw as a consequence of the struggle between the different inhabitants of that environment . |
| 9 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 10 | Alright , he invested the money that he received as a gratuity from British Telecom when he was made redundant . |
| 11 | It appears that he appointed as his prime minister , Mr. Omer Arteh Qalib . |
| 12 | Though many other features certainly were recognised by Banfield as relevant , the characteristic of these societies that he adopted as the key to explanation was the absence of concerted collective action by the peasants for improvement of their own position . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , the signs are that he died as a result of poisoning but this has to be confirmed . ’ |
| 14 | Neither Taskopruzade nor Mecdi gives any clue concerning the date of Molla Arab 's appointment to the Muftilik ( beyond the fact that it is implicit that it occurred in the reign of Bayezid II ) , although both state that he died as Mufti of Istanbul in 901/1495–6 . |
| 15 | ‘ Presumably the doctor was satisfied that he died as a result of his illness ? ’ |
| 16 | From his saddlebag he took a length of rope that he knotted as a leash round Nosey 's neck , then he drew his rifle out of the saddle holster , cocked it , and went silently forward . |
| 17 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 18 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 19 | As Tallis ran towards him she thought , with idle horror , that he looked as if he was praying . |
| 20 | For instance , at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ the Head of Music expressed the strongly held view that he operates as a practitioner involved in education rather than the transmission of an established body of knowledge . |
| 21 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 22 | He dwells on the dilemma that he inherited along with his love for this man that he questions as sympathy . |
| 23 | The date and place of his birth , and the early years of his Bohemian adult life , remain obscure , although it is known that he worked as an actor in England and travelled widely on the Continent . |
| 24 | When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister , in 1937 , he had as the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , a very able minister of considerable repute , which fact probably accounted for the fact that he remained as Foreign Secretary despite the clear differences of opinion that became apparent between them . |
| 25 | This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory . |
| 26 | . It seemed that he acted as a receiver of stolen goods … |
| 27 | The issue will , however , continue to be important for negligence claims where the defendant wishes to seek immunity on the grounds that he acted as an arbitrator , as in Palacath Ltd v Flanagan [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 161 : see 14.5.3 . |
| 28 | However , he always retained control over the issues that he regarded as most important ( which is not to say that they were necessarily the most important in an objective sense ) . |
| 29 | Mozart 's music will be played throughout the world in 1991 in many bicentenary celebrations , but where better to listen to his operas , chamber music and piano concertos than in Vienna , a city that he described as ‘ the best place in the world for my metier ’ . |
| 30 | Despite his opposition to romanticisation , the reference to deviance as being ‘ vital ’ clearly suggests that he sees as an established truth that deviance is , to some extent at least , a necessary and positive thing for society . |