Example sentences of "he as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who 's watching him followed him as near as possible to the mountain the first time but he could n't go any further without being seen — the same problem we had with Scano 's boy yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 3 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 4 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 5 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 6 | But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said . |
| 7 | ‘ Russell laughed , and we all laughed : she knew him as well as that . |
| 8 | Keeping my feelings hidden from him as well as I could , I suggested that the hospital was becoming too obvious and dangerous a hiding place . |
| 9 | Perhaps another ‘ Why I am not a Roman Catholic ’ would be salutary from him as well as for them . |
| 10 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 11 | It 's a long way , it 's a long way to come and pop in see without you knowing him as well as I do he , he , Rudy 's so hard to move , I mean I 'd love , I 've said that |
| 12 | Fincara 's maddening laughter rippled out , and she stepped over to him as easily as a dancer . |
| 13 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |
| 14 | He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible . |
| 15 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 16 | It was clear that the events of 17 May 1968 had left their mark on him as indelibly as they had on Willy Morpurgo . |
| 17 | More important , perhaps , he was in normal uniform , which grounded him as surely as if he had been chained to the nearest hangar door . |
| 18 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 19 | It had originated from elsewhere , and infected him as surely as any virus . |
| 20 | New life , green as the holly leaf , was at work inside him as surely as it stirred inside his wife . |
| 21 | He knew Marshka would destroy him as effortlessly and unthinkingly as shelling peas . |
| 22 | Why had it trapped him as neatly as she had done ? |
| 23 | It was n't easy to make out his expression , but she was watching him as carefully as she could . |
| 24 | When he reaches back into his jacket pocket for that inevitable pack of cheap cigars I 'm watching him as carefully as a dog with a drunken master , unsure whether he 'll get a kick or a bowl of food . |
| 25 | I 'll join him as soon as possible . ’ |
| 26 | Canon Healey has asked that Hospitality members should write to him as soon as possible with nominations for the duties of matron and chief handmade to the pilgrimage , both roles previously carried out by Mrs McDermott . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't feel jealous or bitter , although I must admit , I 'm relishing the thought of running the 100m against him as soon as possible . ’ |
| 28 | If your battle plan is to charge headlong at the enemy and engage him as soon as possible chariots are ideal . |
| 29 | You 'll put it to him as soon as possible , wo n't you ? |
| 30 | She asked the person who answered her to try and find him as soon as possible and to ask him to contact her in Cairo immediately as there is an extremely urgent matter she needs to talk to him about . |