Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 2 | He mattered to Shelley very much — as a doctor and as a person , and she could n't bear to think of him losing that precious heart to this young girl , who regarded him just as someone to pay her bills . |
| 3 | M. Berton regarded him alone as capable of directing [ diriger ] the large Paris Opéra orchestra , after himself . |
| 4 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |
| 5 | Julie smiled at him but Nigger ignored him completely as he stuck his hand out to Yanto . |
| 6 | ‘ I think we 've concluded our business , ’ she told him crisply as she snatched open the driver 's door and climbed into the sun-warmed interior . |
| 7 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |
| 8 | Seeing him now in a different light , she studied him covertly as he read quickly through the typewritten sheets . |
| 9 | He found it almost repulsive to think of it in there , kicking at the walls ; but it roused him sexually as well . |
| 10 | They admired him even as they reviled him . |
| 11 | Her arms enclosed him just as she would wish to be clasped and comforted . |
| 12 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 13 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 14 | His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems . |
| 15 | I waved him away as Karen thoughtfully tucked me in and zipped me up . |
| 16 | We watched him greedily as Darwin at the zoo |
| 17 | She watched him carefully as Wakelate brought in the brandy and poured out a generous measure . |
| 18 | She watched him carefully as he moved away from the door and came and sat down . |
| 19 | The men watched him silently as he strode on , their brown shirts at one with the autumn in the Tiergarten , as colour drained out of the world in preparation for winter . |
| 20 | Robyn watched him cautiously as he bent to the fridge . |
| 21 | She watched him warily as he dropped his briefcase on to the chair next to her own and perched on the arm , stretching out long legs , and running his fingers through his hair . |
| 22 | He was a lifelong Etonian : that his three sons each succeeded him there as captain of Oppidans , and that he himself was elected an Eton fellow , were sources of great personal satisfaction . |
| 23 | And yesterday Labour 's rank-and-file kept him there as he won 533,000 votes in the constituency section of the election — which is decided by ballot . |
| 24 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 25 | I knew him well as he was a collector . |
| 26 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 27 | The more he knew Sarah , the more he liked her , but he wondered if she saw him just as Anne 's sedate older brother , not part of the flirting casual crowd of her own age group as Terry was . |
| 28 | She was lost in her own delirium and clawed him unmercifully as she rode the mad race . |
| 29 | ‘ But they shot him again as he lay dying . ’ |
| 30 | I kicked him aside as the dream faded . |