Example sentences of "[adv] well as he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No man practises so well as he writes . |
| 2 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 3 | Nigel 's novel was not doing quite as well as he had hoped . |
| 4 | Robert , especially , knows this , for he knows the style of my speech as well as he knows the rhythm of my walk or the vocabulary of my gestures . |
| 5 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 6 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 7 | In fact , Yorkshire have some good players and if Tendulkar plays as well as he can , he will provide extra runs at a lively tempo , so giving Martyn Moxon more chances to be in control of the game . |
| 8 | Corydon , speaking as well as he can in Mira 's defence , observes : |
| 9 | In some ways , it is quite remarkable that Andrew turned out as well as he did . ’ |
| 10 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |
| 11 | Throughout his successful career in which he won 24 Scottish caps , Macari was pursued by a cruel terracing joke ; if he could pass the bookies as well as he passes a ball he would be a millionaire in ten years . |
| 12 | His confinement was not over-rigorous , as ‘ the worthy jailer Smith ’ took him out for a walk while he was there ; and by 30th August he was back at home in Ambleside , having found Anne and the children as well as he could expect . |
| 13 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 14 | The recording catches the players rather forcefully , and the balance between guitar and string quartet is not always well managed : that is not the engineer 's fault so much as Boccherini 's who did not always judge texture as well as he might . |
| 15 | ‘ Paid an' all , ’ Garty said , sidling crab-like towards Jess as well as he could , managing to stand on her skirt . |
| 16 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 17 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 18 | Memories of shared evenings , with cans of beer and football on the TV , flooded back to Bodie ; shared hours with Ray Doyle , mad pursuits , of cars , of women , shared jokes , anger , support ; he knew this small apartment almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 19 | But if he knew his Commander as well as he thought he did , there would be little chance of that . |
| 20 | ‘ He has another season-and-a-half on his contract , and if he 's playing as well as he is now , we will definitely sit down and talk about a new deal . |
| 21 | ‘ I think he ran as well as he could in the circumstances and he 'll go again at Longchamp in two weeks . ’ |
| 22 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 23 | Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended . |
| 24 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 25 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 26 | Dandelion swam as well as he ran , swiftly and easily . |
| 27 | This did not go down as well as he might have hoped . |
| 28 | Often he is afraid that these jobs will not be done , or not done as well as he would do them . |
| 29 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 30 | He relaxed his roly-poly figure in the cart and let his piebald pony , who knew the way home as well as he did , trot ahead through the darkness of the berry-lined road . |