Example sentences of "he [adv prt] 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 | Then she threw all his clothes into the swimming pool , and then pushed him in as well . |
| 8 | She put him down as the little grey man had foretold on a huge grey granite stone , pitted and scarred and bald . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So that an angry customer in Donegal will get exactly the same wording to calm him down as he would in Cork or Wexford . |
| 12 | Graham 's first touch let him down as Boro waited for offside and Stephen Pears was able to smother the ball . |
| 13 | When his secretary rings , put him off as long as you decently can . |
| 14 | The Floridante Overture nearly throws him off as he takes the corners with no evidence of concern for his own safety , but the overall effect is thrilling as he leads us on an absorbing and unexpected journey with an orchestra and cast consisting , in the main , of unknown and unpronounceable Hungarians . |
| 15 | Even before he started at Rangers , Brian Clough had written him off as being ‘ too nice ’ for the job . |
| 16 | He irritated the hell out of her , and it would n't be so bad if she could write him off as being thoroughly detestable . |
| 17 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 18 | My men picked him up as he came over the Luxembourg border . |
| 19 | He did n't even notice the tannoy , he was already as tired as I was and he could barely stand ; I had to keep waking him up as he was swaying . |
| 20 | I 'll bring him up as my own but he 's keeping his own father 's name . ’ |
| 21 | Though Washington 's rival Marcus Garvey lauded Johnson and held him up as man to be revered by blacks ( 1967 , volume I , p.13 ) . |
| 22 | Molly took a handkerchief and tidied him up as though he were the room . |
| 23 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 24 | Dr Ian Rolfe , then of the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow snapped him up as supervisor of YOPs on a Manpower Services scheme to develop fossils in rock which had been excavated in Australia in the 1960s . |
| 25 | That came nine minutes from time when Steve Thornber scored with his shin after sub John Williams set him up as Swansea caught Pool on the counter-attack . |
| 26 | Morse caught the man 's arm , and held him back as he was walking down the steps . |
| 27 | He began attending evening classes in the Mechanics ' Institute and ‘ thereby developed the gifts of teaching and speaking , and habits of thought and reading , with so much success as to mark him out as one called of God ’ . |
| 28 | Only the 16th caught him out as he took three putts for his only bogey . |
| 29 | Even Michael Bridges , the Echo man ( Kegan had leaned over to Briant and pointed him out as soon as he came in ) , sat sprawled in seeming boredom in his chair at the end of the front row . |
| 30 | Would we want to rule him out as being conscious , on the grounds that the above condition is a necessary one ? |