Example sentences of "as he have [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 2 | Then , glancing up and seeing her face , unexpectedly got up , as quick and full of energy as he had just been lethargic ( but it was the energy of anger ) and came out with her into the hall , where Philip , frail as a leaf , was standing by the great dark-grey water tank . |
| 3 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |
| 4 | Instead , she grasped him as he had never been grasped before . |
| 5 | For him the girl in the picture ‘ was made to seem perfectly in context as he had never been able to see people before ’ . |
| 6 | In 1662 the English government allocated £2,000 to meet the costs of maintaining a Russian ambassador during his short stay in London ; and two decades later another , after much argument , forced his hosts to allow him £100 a week — twice as much as he had originally been offered . |
| 7 | Outside the post office he made no apology for the roughness of his appearance but he was as friendly and charming as he had always been . |
| 8 | Even my mother had closed her eyes and ceased to speak of bridal nerves , and my groom , who meant as little to me as his mother 's dog , was just as he had always been . |
| 9 | This was my dad , just as he had always been . |
| 10 | Once again the solicitor representing them said that there was not and that his clients had put him in difficulties , as he had only been given instructions a week before . |
| 11 | It was the same kind as he had once been kept in for so long . |
| 12 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 13 | She had found him , seen him , shivered at the resemblance to Jacob , but he was as distant as he had ever been . |
| 14 | As he finished shaving he found he was grinning broadly at his reflection in the mirror ; in that jungle dawn he knew he was as happy as he had ever been in his life . |
| 15 | Indeed , this event was the first of several that has enabled Keith to use his knowledge of Russian as he has also been asked to write a short speech for a Coopers and Lybrand partner in Sheffield and subsequently coach him with his delivery skills . |
| 16 | This lightly raced four-year-old may have been underrated by the handicapper as he has twice been beaten since he made a winning debut at Doncaster late in the 1991 season as a two-year-old . |
| 17 | Remittance Man deserved this change of luck as he has never been out of the frame in his seven previous starts but had only managed one win . |
| 18 | And from now on , he will be as fervently fanatical in his promulgation of Nazarean thought as he has hitherto been in trying to suppress it . |
| 19 | It can be seen from this that although David Barclay senior was not ‘ the founder of Barclays Bank ’ as he has sometimes been named , his sons James , David , and John were important early partners in the bank , and the mercantile fortune he had built up an important source of capital for it from the 1770s . |
| 20 | Arthur Davies plays her tragic lover , Don José — ‘ ringingly passionate ’ as he has rightly been described . |