Example sentences of "as he [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in 1982 Gemayel still saw it as he had in the late 1930s , as a movement of renewal that prepared Lebanon 's young Christians for independence and civic responsibility . |
| 2 | The sandy-haired man 's eyes narrowed as he took in the possessive gesture , but he made no comment on it . |
| 3 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 4 | As he said in The Favourite Game : ‘ Seven to 11 is a huge chunk of life , full of dulling and forgetting , ’ though perhaps some of the ‘ forgetting ’ was deliberate . |
| 5 | Hobhouse ‘ presented a kind of fusion of Spencer and Green ’ insofar as he believed in the scientific importance of the idea of evolution but felt that the most highly evolved society is one ‘ in which the efforts of its members are most completely coordinated to common ends , in which discord is most fully subdued to harmony . ’ |
| 6 | DRIPS and tubes punctured two-year-old Thomas Stimpfig 's tiny , frail body as he lay in the Paediatric Oncology Unit at Bart 's with leukaemia . |
| 7 | As he lay in the marine blue bath ( matching the marine blue wash-basin and separate lavatory ) , laced with Juliet 's bubble bath , Charles thought about the Steen situation . |
| 8 | Outwardly he was calm and composed as he walked in the warm evening sunshine towards the House , but like the swans gliding serenely across the water , he too was paddling like hell underneath . |
| 9 | As he relaxed in the steaming water of his post-combat bath , Angel One reviewed the events of the past chaotic two weeks , and reflected on the capriciousness of fate . |
| 10 | As he soaked in the warm , slightly scented water , he ran through his options . |
| 11 | Wordsworth felt that he wanted to return to England , settle down , and never go abroad again ; as he stated in the last of the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , written two years later : |
| 12 | As he explained in the rhyming preface to the first part , he had written it |
| 13 | He wondered , as he dismounted in the outer ward , precisely what it foreboded . |
| 14 | Indeed of Hughes , now scoring the simple as well as the specatucal — as he did in the 60th minuted to secure victory — Fergsuon said : ‘ That was his fourth goal in successive games . |
| 15 | He did not benefit much , scoring 23 before he snicked Snell 's out-swinger , as he did in the first innings , to be caught by the keeper . |
| 16 | It was much harder to show a side of your nature and your soul as an actor as he did in The Private Ear and the Public Eye . ’ |
| 17 | If so , he clearly failed in this , as he did in the abortive negotiations to stop the Scottish army from moving south in support of a civilian government — and ultimately of a free Parliament . |
| 18 | On the most important of four questions — ‘ Do you trust the president ? ’ — Mr Yeltsin won as much support as he did in the presidential election of 1991 ( see page 41 ) . |
| 19 | There had been a moment in his career , as he declared in the interesting preface he wrote to Josef Pieper 's Leisure the Basis of Culture and as Brand Blanshard has retailed in the Eliot Anniversary Issue of The Southern Review ( 1985 ) , ( ‘ Eliot at Oxford ’ ) , when , after a good deal of philosophical study , lie had decided to renounce the subject as such . |
| 20 | No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber . |
| 21 | As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki . |
| 22 | As he stood in the torrential rain , and peered this way and that , the Mason and Garvey stood with their arms round each other 's shoulders , in the doorway of the inn , watching him in puzzled amusement . |
| 23 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 24 | Dowd shivered with unease as he stood in the plain hallway of the Tower , knowing that somewhere nearby was the largest collection of magical writings gathered in one place outside the Vatican , and that amongst them would be many rituals for the raising and dispatching of creatures like himself . |
| 25 | The strain in his voice made her realise how much he still held his emotions on a tight rein and his dark eyes roamed over her hungrily as he undressed in the soft lamplight . |