Example sentences of "he [verb] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 2 | He produced as many copies as possible in the economical A state , stopping the press at once to rejig the type . |
| 3 | Had n't he heard as much from The Man himself often enough ? |
| 4 | Sometimes he got as much as what would now be £1.50 to go home with . |
| 5 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 6 | Typically , he drew as much from the personality of each bird as from the relative characteristics of a particular species . |
| 7 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 8 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 9 | He has as many selves as he has utterances , virtual or realized , as many selves as there are words in his lexicon , even in the dictionary of his potential language , with each word its aetimology , its phoneyetic fragility and its semiantic sea changes , each word its infinite contiguities and its tall spokes of paradismatic possibilities . |
| 10 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Slaven was not picked tonight but he has as much chance as any other player of playing at Tranmere on Friday night . |
| 11 | If he does n't he counts as many as he can find . |
| 12 | This suggestion of a compulsive activity with which he wants as little to do as possible is confirmed by his description of poetry as a " secretion " ( he quotes Housman favourably on this ) , an " evacuation " and even a " defecation " . |
| 13 | He 's stuck it in his shop window because he says it 's so ridiculous he wants as many people as possible to see it . |
| 14 | He 's stuck it in his shop window because he says it 's so ridiculous he wants as many people as possible to see it . |
| 15 | But atop the blue tower blocks of big Waimea , he attracted as much attention as the Pope on the balcony of St Peter 's . |
| 16 | ‘ But he ate as many as he could get , ’ said Tweedledum . |
| 17 | He ate as much as usual , but gesticulated more . |
| 18 | Even when he could not do it properly he loved it , and very soon he pleased as much as he was pleased . |
| 19 | He turned as more visitors arrived , and went forward to meet them . |
| 20 | erm I do n't think he exists as much as he used Norbert wants something . |
| 21 | That is why he spent as much time as he possibly could outside the ring , talking about anything but the council tax . |
| 22 | His skin was bronzed , his thinning hair was bleached by sun and sea , and Wycliffe felt sure that he spent as little time as possible away from boats , the sea , and the club bar . |
| 23 | Understand that this could be the worst news you could give him and make sure he gets as much of your time as you can give . |
| 24 | I mean he does n't want for nothing , he gets as much as I can give him . |
| 25 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |
| 26 | This was partly through his articles , in which he placed as much emphasis on the soft parts as on the hard parts of the anatomy , although the former , for obvious reasons , must be the subject of much more speculation than the latter . |
| 27 | Maybe Wilko did nt think he needed as much match fitness as the others in the squad ? ? |
| 28 | On some days he delivered as many as fourteen speeches and on one occasion shook 2,000 hands in a receiving line . |
| 29 | He took as many arrows as he could carry and , holding his bow with an arrow ready notched , set off down the track after the verderers . |
| 30 | He feels as much sympathy for these victims as he does for slaves who died centuries earlier turning some tyrant 's grindstone . |