Example sentences of "as well [subord] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dandelion swam as well as he ran , swiftly and easily . |
| 2 | If he runs the country as well as he ran the campaign we 'll be alright . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 4 | But if he knew his Commander as well as he thought he did , there would be little chance of that . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She hoped he spoke English as well as he wrote it and she hoped too that his slightly censorious tone did not surface as he met her in Paris . |
| 7 | Nigel 's novel was not doing quite as well as he had hoped . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 10 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 13 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 14 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 15 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At the moment Ian is playing as well as he has ever played in my time at Carrow Road . ’ |
| 18 | Well , Ace knocked that little idea flat but unfortunately himself as well as he hit his head on the door-frame trying to seek sanctuary in the pits . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Love , she wanted to shout , only his mirthless smile cut the word off in the throat , and then her breathing was cut off as well as he placed one of her hands on the accelerated pulse beating in his neck . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 23 | In some ways , it is quite remarkable that Andrew turned out as well as he did . ’ |
| 24 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |
| 29 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 30 | Ever since Cuntona joined scum , all of a sudden he s a class player — despite still not playing as well as he did for Leeds . |