Example sentences of "as he [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 2 | As he had so often done during the Civil War , he sat behind the battle lines , watching through his binoculars as the two sides fought it out . |
| 3 | He smiled , seeing it ahead of him ; imagining Beth there in the low-beamed living room , the fire lit and the curtains drawn ; seeing her , as he had so often seen her , go to the back door and call the children in from the meadow . |
| 4 | Again Shiona was filled with the urge to say it , to hurt him as he had so often hurt her . |
| 5 | Then she told herself he had only got the better of her because she was , as he had so rightly said , suffering from shock and exhaustion . |
| 6 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 7 | She caught sight of it and put up her other hand , and with a finger stroked his bottom lip until he flinched and turned his head away , parting his lips as he did so however to bite her finger slightly , and close on it . |