Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him as [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
2 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
3 | They had monitored him as far as Poverty Row , then the Dream had upside-downed . |
4 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
5 | The air carrier had returned him as quickly as possible . |