Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made no overt protest as Mountagu manoeuvred the navy behind the restoration of monarchy , and sailed with the fleet that brought the king back to England in May . |
| 2 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 3 | From 1897 to 1905 he led the reunited order as international chief templar and in 1899 undertook a round-the-world mission which symbolized Good Templar internationalism . |
| 4 | You say he got a fat tummy as he ? |
| 5 | As a result , he got the same response as he had received at Munich : ‘ Sorry , no vacancies ’ . |
| 6 | He thinks the same way as I do about our work . |
| 7 | He hummed the little tones as he pressed each key . |
| 8 | Mr Zeman , a former member of the Communist Party , said yesterday that he regarded the current leadership as ‘ anti-socialist , counter-revolutionary , and right-wing ’ . |
| 9 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 10 | John Hayes , secretary general of the Law Society , said he regarded the entire matter as up for debate . |
| 11 | ‘ Alexander , he has the same name as the late king . |
| 12 | He shielded the thin beam as best he could ; he felt it was like a beacon , alerting the whole county . |
| 13 | Bagehot exaggerated when he described the middle classes as " the despotic power in England " but there is no doubt that the balance of power tilted away from the large landowners that dominated the House of Lords and towards the industrialists who were represented in the House of Commons . |
| 14 | He described the original verdict as having " left us all with a deep sense of personal frustration and anguish " . |
| 15 | He described an adequate marriage as having periods of intimacy interspersed with periods of autonomy for both partners , who , at the same time , do not allow the relationship to become too tenuous and know that the other will be there when needed . |
| 16 | He used the same technique as when looking for a lost golf ball and took a line on a large house on the Ramsgate front . |
| 17 | He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ . |
| 18 | He played the proverbial blinder as Galway stormed to a famous victory . |
| 19 | He played the proverbial blinder as Galway stormed to a famous victory . |
| 20 | He received the same message as Sir Ralph . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're making things seriously easy for us , ’ he told a raging Perdita as he cantered back . |
| 22 | He uses the same methods as with the other five people he has so far deceived , his ‘ outward action ’ being the opposite of the ‘ native act and figure ’ of his heart , but he carries the principle of inversion much further . |
| 23 | He adopted a stilted voice as though he were giving evidence . |
| 24 | He dropped a few matches as he fumbled disconsolately with his smoking equipment . |
| 25 | Imagine his surprise then , when , looking more closely , he identified the other man as . |
| 26 | He costs the same points as an ordinary trooper . |
| 27 | He costs the same points as an ordinary trooper . |
| 28 | He costs the same points as an ordinary trooper . |
| 29 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 30 | He greets an old woman as she peers through the window of Patel 's newsagent shop . |