Example sentences of "as he [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 2 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 3 | So was the ghostly passenger preparing to embark on another train journey as he had done many times during his life on earth ? |
| 4 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
| 5 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
| 6 | He would stand in the corridor which ran along past the junior classrooms , as he had done that morning , and listen to the lessons being given . |
| 7 | Much as he had done seven times before . |
| 8 | Characteristically , however , Chapman was to learn from the defeat , just as he had done twenty years before after Northampton 's defeat by Norwich . |
| 9 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 10 | He 's always been a gentle little soul , very loving and friendly with everyone , but as he had to spend 3–4 hours every day on his own at home , we thought we would get another dog as company for him . |
| 11 | Alan Murphy , 25 , from Alexandria , Strathclyde , told the Princess he was exercising to put on weight as he had lost six stones after breaking his back in a car crash . |
| 12 | Even love , as he had explained five years before in a poem briskly called ‘ Love ’ ( 1966 ) , calls for a lot of cheek : ‘ … the blind persistence/To upset an existence/Just for your own sake . ’ |
| 13 | For instance , the lavatory at Calverley General never struck him as being the same lavatory as he had entered last week , month or year , but always generically as " the " or " a " lavatory . |
| 14 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |
| 15 | It was not an easy task for the coalman to make deliveries as he had to lump one hundredweight sacks , right through the house , down three steps , duck to miss the top of the door frame to the scullery , then a mighty heave to deposit coal costing one shilling a hundredweight in the exact spot . |
| 16 | They had been desires to be quenched , as he had quenched other desires over the years . |
| 17 | When Ngo Dinh Diem was proclaimed President of the ‘ Republic of Vietnam ’ in October 1955 compromise seemed impossible as he began to suppress all opposition , whether political or religious . |
| 18 | ‘ Here , that 's not a nice thing to say , ’ protested Dolly , eyes on his bent head as he began to apply cold compresses . |
| 19 | Hrun hummed a little tune as he began to pull crumbling leather from the desecrated altar . |
| 20 | When Gordon Allport wrote his classic work The Nature of Prejudice , he left ‘ prejudice ’ unqualified as he wished to include general principles of psychological functioning in his analysis . |
| 21 | He does n't know what they will build to , but as long as he keeps finding new pieces the picture will slowly become clear . |
| 22 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |
| 23 | Her father 's anguish , as he 'd shouted those words at her mother , had pierced her to the quick , her mother 's shushing noises hardly heard as she 'd crept away to her room to hide . |
| 24 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 25 | Half Moon Crescent , he had repeated and repeated to himself as he 'd walked that night . |
| 26 | But after Monaco , a real miracle did occur : Stanley said to forget the rest of the payments to the team — as long as he agreed to stay two seasons more . |
| 27 | Hubert bent nails , made patterns with metal bars and suffered agonies as he struggled to lift massive weights . |
| 28 | As he prepared to take full advantage of the situation he suddenly recalled a horrible memory . |
| 29 | THE unemployed can do without Peter Lilley 's daft comments as he plans to make more people jobless . |
| 30 | His face was tense with concentration as he worked to remove tiny splinters of bone . |