Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 2 | Well , Ace knocked that little idea flat but unfortunately himself as well as he hit his head on the door-frame trying to seek sanctuary in the pits . ’ |
| 3 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 4 | He had n't purged himself as completely as he had thought . |
| 5 | He 's pulled our strings as if we were his puppets , and there I was , all ready to touch you up just as he wanted . |
| 6 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 7 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 8 | ‘ There , ’ said Penry , putting her aside gently as he prepared to pilot the Angharad into her anchorage . |
| 9 | Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward . |
| 10 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 11 | Behind him , Farquhar propped him up unobtrusively as he swayed slightly , his glazed expression half-hidden by his neatly-brushed beard . |
| 12 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 13 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 14 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 15 | He did n't mind what Jack knew about him , within reason , that is , although he had ceased to confide in him as absolutely as he had in the days when they passed through Kingsmarkham Primary School together . |
| 16 | He thought he could mindblast her as simply as he had put Tunney out of the picture . |
| 17 | Since he looked after her as carefully as he did the rest , the princess too was happy to share their life in the forest . |
| 18 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |
| 19 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 20 | Matthew seemed to avoid her as studiously as he avoided Sandra ! |
| 21 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 22 | That same mood was on him even now as he stood there looking up at the house . |
| 23 | It had been returned to him almost exactly as he had sent it , with no covering letter or word of explanation . |
| 24 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 25 | He glanced up at her almost respectfully as he poured himself some tea . |
| 26 | He hated it especially now as he dragged it out of its corner in the garage , squeezed it between his Vauxhall Viva estate car and the twins ' tricycles , and rolled it on to the uneven surface in front of the garage doors . |
| 27 | Wrote it out soon as he 'd gone . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been putting it out just as he 's walked in , I said I 'm getting good me at this tea . |
| 29 | It does n't have to be followed slavishly , which can happen when a man wants to impose a schedule and organise it as formally as he has organised his work . |
| 30 | Although time seems always to have been important for Petrarch , he tended to value it even more as he got older because he realized that , as with other things , it becomes more precious as it becomes less plentiful . |