Example sentences of "as he [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a glimpse though , for the large figure darted back as soon as he saw them . |
| 2 | Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop , who has made a lifetime study of the British Constitution , spelled out the constitutional realities as he saw them . |
| 3 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 4 | Taczek stood in the hallway of the second floor outside his flat , solid arms akimbo , the smile dissolving from his face as he saw them climb the stairs . |
| 5 | There was nothing analytical in the experience , only a sense of wonder that things should be as he saw them and , in particular , that he should be involved . |
| 6 | To put forward as proof or as an example : He adduced the reasons , as he saw them , for the changes in literary style during the last century . |
| 7 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 8 | Elstir is described by the narrator as an artist who painted objects , and I quote , ‘ not as he knew them to be , but according to the optical illusions of which our first sight of them is composed . ’ |
| 9 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 10 | He let the tears lie on his cheeks , and men cheered as he passed them , their young golden King who had won his crown at last . |
| 11 | As he walked back out into the foyer , the girls automatically straightened again as he passed them . |
| 12 | As he passed them , Ross stifled an impulse to laugh . |
| 13 | Caspar was moving forward , frowning , inspecting the robes as he passed them , occasionally reaching out a hand to touch a fold of colour . |
| 14 | The old grizzled grannies cursed him as he passed them by . |
| 15 | These high earnings , however confounded the directors , as he achieved them while the markets were quiet , and while business was usually slow , at a period when morale was low from the market crash a few months earlier . |
| 16 | Hilton uses words like " shape " and " image " ( " oure lord God schope man in soule to his owne ymage and liknes " ) ( 1.63r. – 193 ) which depend on spatial dimension for their meaning ; but as he defines them they point to an integration of human sentient powers in a consciousness of transcendent love and knowledge . |
| 17 | However , perhaps the most surprising aspect of Lord Cross 's speech is the apparent complacency with which he viewed the implications of his decision as he understood them . |
| 18 | For Innocent , the vicar of Christ , the commission to St Peter to govern meant implementation of the aims of his predecessors as he understood them . |
| 19 | The colours just as he left them . ’ |
| 20 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 21 | His wife and mother beamed at him as he kissed them all in turn . |
| 22 | The little girls squealed with delight as he swung them round in a circle , before setting them back gently on to the sand . |
| 23 | He saw all these things , as he expected them . |
| 24 | He liked gentlemen to behave as he expected them to behave . |
| 25 | I have formally to decline such offers and shame on the correspondent who said that he had a pair of longjohns that flashed as he took them off and I was welcome to observe the spectacle at any time . |
| 26 | His jaw dropped slightly as he took them in : one Picasso , from his Cubist period ; two superb Braques ; an early Kandinsky ; a Mondrian ; one of Rothko 's red series ; a vast and tormented Jackson Pollock . |
| 27 | She felt the muscles in the arm around her swell as he flexed them , and looked up at him , forgetting he was masked . |
| 28 | He distinguishes among them , cursorily , as he cites them in order . |
| 29 | Then he was clinging to them , even as he felt them tear loose from the rock . |
| 30 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |