Example sentences of "[coord] as he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | In this his second publication of poetry , or as he calls it ‘ making the bastards suffer ’ , Bitumen has produced a well rounded collection of spite , venom and malicious slander . |
2 | The family was able to buy first the supermarket in Lordship Lane — or as he calls it , ‘ Hardship Lane ’ — then a string of other stores including a wholesalers business . |
3 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
4 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
5 | And does he love you as you are , or as he wants you to be ? |
6 | Of course the role of the trustees is , is , is re- affirmed really by Good who er says that there under the under trust or as he sees it , the trustees should remain the legal owners of the fund and I wonder if we can move on to ownership . |
7 | To achieve this , Poulantzas says , it must to some extent be independent of all classes , or as he puts it , it must be relatively autonomous . |
8 | Storm damage to the spire has prompted the Rector to ask the organist to choose his notes wisely … or as he puts it , Ding Dong Merrily without the Dong . |
9 | Low rejected this , but agreed that a Yugoslav officer would be permitted " to visit all camps in which there were CROATS , or as he called them , Yugoslav Quislings " . |
10 | And finally , it brought on that rich cast of wooden-topped rustics , the Starkadders , with Aunt Ada Doom in the star part , not to speak of the simpleton whose main pleasure in life was doing the washing up , or as he called it , clettering the dishes with his liddle mop . |
11 | Or as he put it elsewhere : " the Deposing Doctrine , and placing the Power in the People , is but the Spittle of the Papists and Jesuits , which our Whigs and Dissenters have Lick't up " . |
12 | It had her dropping her aggressive stance immediately , and as he advanced she retreated until she felt the table hard and unyielding against her back . |
13 | But his finger never pulled the trigger for he , too , felt an explosion in his chest and , as if going into a slow dive , he dropped to the earth , the gun still gripped in his hand , and as he died he heard a voice yelling , ‘ Christ ! |
14 | The quotation he give was sixty five and as he said which is true they double every five years . |
15 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
16 | And as he said it , shifty-eyes-with-dandruff ( and I 'll throw in bad breath ) put out a hand for my arm . |
17 | He put a coin into her small hand , and as he touched her wrist he noticed how quickly the blood was beating . |
18 | He was in coma , and as he breathed he made a terrible bubbling sound . |
19 | She passed Mr Bumble the tea-cup , and as he took it , he managed to give her hand a little stroke . |
20 | She held out her hand , and as he took it , he took off his glasses , so that she looked directly into his dark eyes , realising with a start that they were very beautiful and rather disconcerting . |
21 | write to him as well disgusting , as if you do n't , you do n't need that sort of aggravation from a teacher stirring up trouble like that making the kids making him a laughing stock , he does not need that , its just not on is it ? , and as he says I 'm sure she does it on purpose . |
22 | And as he went he did great good , and gave alms , feeding the poor and needy . |
23 | She pulled him past her , and as he went he let his hand float out casually behind him , as he had seen it done , and was overjoyed to feel her small , damp hand fall solidly into his palm . |
24 | He walked through the white corridors , past the notice boards with their offers of small rooms and old cars , past the coffee bar where people sat at tables , past a hole in the white floor where an old chair stood sentry over an opened conduit in which a torch shone and a man crawled , and as he left he looked at his watch : |
25 | She was looking at the gentleman , and he was looking at her now and as he inclined his head he said , ‘ Thank you for your service . ’ |
26 | And as he rocked he said her name , over and over and over again . |
27 | She leaned forward , her hair falling across her face , and as he lifted his head she brought her lips down on his , parting them with her tongue at the same moment as she felt his hands unzipping her jeans . |
28 | She opened her eyes , and as he straddled her watched his swollen member trying to push into her . |
29 | When he first came the villagers wanted to get rid of him but he would n't go , and as he made himself useful they came to endure him . |
30 | Carmarthen was a close fourth , and as he made his challenge he completed the box around Sir Ivor . |