Example sentences of "he [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 2 | But , by keeping him on as State Secretary , Mr Yeltsin is ensuring that his trusted colleague from his days as Communist Party chief in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) remains firmly in charge of all presidential structures . |
| 3 | Mr Brown had Labour conference delegates roaring him on as he said : ‘ He is a Prime Minister who watches football on Saturday , watches cricket on Sunday , watches the pound on Wednesday . |
| 4 | Robinson , 28 , has found other counties unwilling to take him on as they are allowed only one such signing every five years . |
| 5 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 6 | Ducrocq , recognising perhaps Jack 's engineering ability and flying enthusiasm , took him on as his full time mechanic and at the same time began teaching Jack to fly . |
| 7 | ‘ Wait ! ’ she instructed him furiously as he turned and walked off , but although his steps slowed , he did n't stop , forcing her to follow if she wanted to be heard . |
| 8 | Battler looked at him eagerly as he came back into the room . |
| 9 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 10 | Then she threw all his clothes into the swimming pool , and then pushed him in as well . |
| 11 | She put him down as the little grey man had foretold on a huge grey granite stone , pitted and scarred and bald . |
| 12 | It came from a very smart left-hand catch by Hick , his sixth of the match , a reprimand by gesture to WCM for putting him down as having missed a catch ( Aqib ) in the Lord 's Test which actually fell an inch or two short of Hick 's fingers . |
| 13 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 14 | So that an angry customer in Donegal will get exactly the same wording to calm him down as he would in Cork or Wexford . |
| 15 | Graham 's first touch let him down as Boro waited for offside and Stephen Pears was able to smother the ball . |
| 16 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |
| 17 | M. Berton regarded him alone as capable of directing [ diriger ] the large Paris Opéra orchestra , after himself . |
| 18 | She paused , looking at him thoughtfully as she went on , ‘ Now you know why I 'm here . |
| 19 | Is there a real distinction between turning off a respirator and letting Dr Carrington die , and injecting him so as to bring about his death ? |
| 20 | Pleasure interests him only as long as its quickening of local awareness contributes to his overall awareness . |
| 21 | She seemed to notice him only as he came closer , up to his chair , facing her across the small , four-legged table with the dully glowing red jewel in its centre . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've hurt him enough as it is ; ca n't you see the state of his face ? ’ |
| 23 | She leaned back against the wall and looked at him tauntingly as his head rose sharply at her tone and his eyes fastened on her . |
| 24 | It is your land , Creggan , it is yours … ’ and she spoke to him gently as so often in the past he had spoken to her . |
| 25 | She was rocking him gently as he fed and gazing in abstraction at the far corner of the room . |
| 26 | She was about his age , and in the chronic torpid state that overcame him daily as he faced work , he could not make his embarrassment at her gesture connect with his limbs . |
| 27 | He comes to the door just like that ; no servants , no security phone , and that by itself gives you the green light ; you have n't the time for any finessing so you just kick him in the balls and follow him inside as he collapses , foetal on the floor . |
| 28 | Nicholson , at this point , was in the news through the acclaim being bestowed upon him for Easy Rider , and his first taste of stardom was received with some apprehension ; his on-screen connections with marijuana and LSD also attracted a great deal of media coverage ; serious press interviews , with him personally as the focus and centre of attention , were also unfamiliar territory into which he ventured nervously , almost unsure of what he was going to say and how he was going to express his feelings and opinions ; he had plenty , and serious ones at that . |
| 29 | The unremitting pressure of their role in the politics and violence of Lebanon 's civil war had bonded them into a partnership that meant as much to him personally as professionally . |
| 30 | He has told civil servants at the DTI to address him henceforth as president rather than as the traditional Secretary of State . |