Example sentences of "as he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otis Ferguson was not entirely convinced by Black Legion as he thought it too gloomy ( with appeal only for the ‘ O'Neill audience ’ ) , too jerky in its action , ultimately too indecisive and somewhat lacking in political specifics . |
| 2 | And the plate screamed as he wrenched it upwards . |
| 3 | If Sartre denies all possibility both of an underlying historical structure and of a larger unity , a ‘ hyper-organism ’ as he puts it , within which conflict takes place , then history as he conceptualizes it here has no specific or necessary direction . |
| 4 | For the power of Christ 's resurrection , as he puts it elsewhere , is available only to those who are willing ‘ to share his sufferings and become like him in his death ’ ( Phil 3:10 ) . |
| 5 | Caliban 's intelligence far exceeds theirs , to ‘ dote ’ as he puts it contemptuously , on such ‘ trash ’ and ‘ luggage ’ . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | Or , as he put it slightly differently on another occasion , ‘ religion ’ is ‘ the system of symbols by means of which society becomes conscious of itself ; it is the way of thinking characteristic of collective existence ’ . |
| 8 | As he put it away , she turned to Myeloski . |
| 9 | In his view , there are times when you have to fight fire with fire , or , as he put it rather more eloquently during his defence of the Grand Slam Cup decision , ‘ It was a sad reality that we were left with no real option but to protect tradition with the modern deterrent — money . ’ |
| 10 | Our initial attitude to a moral question , he argues , is a response to moral intuitions , or , as he put it less felicitously , ‘ gut feelings ’ ( 1981 : 4–6 ) . |
| 11 | The rope swayed a little as he went down hand over hand , then he was on the ground and the rope went still again as he held it fast and turned his face up to her . |
| 12 | As he pulled it slowly free it caught the weak January sunshine and Tippy strained against the bonds that held her . |
| 13 | He was a small man and it looked as if his rifle was much too heavy for him as he waved it threateningly at the crowd inside the camp . |
| 14 | The flying hairdryer hit him just above the eye , flex trailing like the tail of a kite , and as he swatted it away the plug whipped around and smacked into his teeth . |
| 15 | As he placed it slowly down on the table , he took a deep breath . |