Example sentences of "have [vb pp] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Biennial is the work of a new curatorial team that director David A. Ross has assembled as he enters his third year at the head of the museum . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's wrong ? ’ she 'd asked as he 'd begun pacing up and down the room . |
| 3 | Perhaps that would explain it , why he 'd lost his composure with Antonini , why he 'd reacted as he had to the woman . |
| 4 | I wonder how Manzoni must have felt as he gazed out of his window at the Palazzo Belgioioso and the comings and goings of Prince Albercio ; the Prince rode out of the square each day on a horse , dressed in a bright general 's uniform , in order to review the private bodyguard he equipped and maintained . |
| 5 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 6 | Coleraine boss Billy Sinclair must have shuddered as he watched his side 's dismal performance . |
| 7 | To have recovered as he had done , so successfully , so brilliantly , after such a traumatic experience , had been a considerable feat . |
| 8 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 9 | The impression of suppressed energy which he had received as he arrived was intensified ; Peter Yeo could barely sit still and was discharging tension by moving papers on his desk , then fiddling with the Venetian blinds to prevent the sun from shining in Catherine 's eyes . |
| 10 | All humour had vanished as he turned to face her , dropping her key on to the stand beside the door , his features stamped with hostility . |
| 11 | ’ He was wandering now , his voice had dropped as he struggled to keep his thread and a restlessness at the back of the gathering broke out in shouts of ‘ Speak up ! |
| 12 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 13 | She had turned as he entered , as if some mystical outside force had willed it . |
| 14 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 15 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 16 | Not even the raids on the town 's three gay brothels brought forth a whisper of information about Surere 's whereabouts , and after four days of intensive hunting , over ground which included the Valley of the Great Tombs on the west bank of the river , Merymose began to think that perhaps , after all , the escaped political had done as he had told Huy he would , and left for the northern deserts to found his religious community . |
| 17 | ‘ Now there 's ane end of ane old song , ’ James Ogilvy , Earl of Seafield , had said as he signed the engrossed exemplification of the Act of Union . |
| 18 | But his confidence had grown as he watched some of his comrades fail the requirements and return to their units . |
| 19 | The row overshadowed the second day of Russia 's Congress of People 's Deputies , where Mr Yeltsin escaped the rough ride that hard-liners had threatened as he delivered a thorough , if lacklustre , report on economic reform . |
| 20 | The row overshadowed the second day of Russia 's Congress of People 's Deputies where Mr Yeltsin escaped the rough ride that hardliners had threatened as he delivered a thorough , if lacklustre , report on economic reform . |
| 21 | The row overshadowed the second day of Russia 's Congress of People 's Deputies , where Mr Yeltsin escaped the rough ride that hardliners had threatened as he delivered a thorough , if lacklustre , report on economic reform . |
| 22 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 23 | Yorick had died as he had lived — untidily and selfishly . |
| 24 | When Joe gave no immediate answer Martin had sighed as he said , ‘ There are a lot of women in the world , laddie , thousands and thousands of ‘ em . |
| 25 | Then she had gasped as he entered her and her poor heart burst with joy . |
| 26 | He had given her a ring that did n't belong to him ; a ring he had stolen as he had stolen Mister Johnny 's safety and Hepzibah 's happiness when he had stolen the will ! |
| 27 | Hauser 's name had cropped up and Buchanan had shrugged as he put down his mug of foul-tasting coffee . |
| 28 | The intense blue of his eyes had dimmed as he looked up and held her gaze . |
| 29 | His smile had gone as he led her horse forward . |
| 30 | There was a small band away from the tables , and the singer had started as he had begun his meat and called for a second bottle . |