Example sentences of "as he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just working in the same room as him welding all them hours |
| 2 | She was surprised to see it was covered by a thick mat of soft fair hair — somehow she 'd have expected someone as blond as him to have smooth , hairless skin . |
| 3 | Simon had once told her how if a Formula One driver blinked during a race it was the same as him driving thirty yards with his eyes shut , and Vitor 's stare was unrelenting . |
| 4 | And here was his colleague , probably , as he heard brisk footsteps from across the road , and a muffled goodnight . |
| 5 | Albert Dryden , who was filmed by a TV camera as he shot dead a council worker , has been sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 6 | He looked up , frowning , and started almost out of his skin as he saw four heads gawping in . |
| 7 | Ranulf gulped noisily as he saw all the colour drain from the Prince 's face . |
| 8 | He was not in favour of an over-active presidency — as he saw that of Roosevelt — but instead proposed to consult widely and act only after calm deliberation . |
| 9 | When a member of parliament was considered to be in a position to influence senior officers ' careers , he might , however , find himself offered minor patronage posts to use as he saw fit , without having to do much to seek them . |
| 10 | He was their final court of appeal and punished them as he saw fit . |
| 11 | For him , compensation lay in taking control over the entire , vast dramatic output of the BBC , with almost unlimited executive powers to restructure it as he saw fit . |
| 12 | The untrammelled right of the individual to dispose of his own property as he saw fit was the essential foundation of a liberal economy and a bourgeois society . |
| 13 | On his own initiative , he began seizing enemies of the Rump Parliament as he saw fit . |
| 14 | He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour . |
| 15 | He heard confessions of sins by his parishioners and gave absolution as he saw fit , enjoining a suitable penance . |
| 16 | The autocratic style of a president who regarded state-controlled radio and television as a transmission service for the government , who felt free to interpret his constitution as he saw fit and regularly to circumvent parliament or his own ministers teetered perpetually on the verge of excess . |
| 17 | During his lifetime the settlor had power , with the trustees ' consent , to appoint capital as he saw fit to anyone including himself and he had power , without the trustees ' consent , similarly to appoint in any period of 12 months one-third of the then capital . |
| 18 | Fairham swallowed hard as he saw another portion of the carcass cut away by a powerful blow . |
| 19 | He knew Sir Harry , as he knew most of the British ministers , well enough to drop titles in private and revert to first names . |
| 20 | He knew Osnabrück fairly well , as he knew most towns in 1st British Corps area , although he 'd never been stationed there . |
| 21 | Although Creggan had progressed northwards well he had slowed during the last day or two as he grew tired easily and rested by feeding off rubbish dumps he had seen where gulls and crows fed . |
| 22 | His family heard him , and as he grew worse , |
| 23 | Napoleon claimed that Turenne had ‘ grown bolder as he grew older ’ ; not a bad epitaph . |
| 24 | As he grew older , Richard II became more assertive , also became a patron of the arts and culture — Geoffrey Chaucer was one of his favourites — and that did not please the Duke of Gloucester , who with others began a civil war to remove the King 's favourites from Court . |
| 25 | His enrolment as a burgess of Brackley in 1753 suggests that contrary to the poet 's fears his fortunes did not collapse as he grew older , rather that his position was , if anything , improved . |
| 26 | As he grew older he adopted more radical views which at one point cost him a job . |
| 27 | As he grew older his favourite view was that of the omnibuses which descended the rue du Bac and crossed the Pont Royal , for it gave him a chance to see the people with whom , for most of the time , he was denied closer contact . |
| 28 | As he grew older , the villages and tents and armies of this world were fading away but the white cities and the armies that lie beyond the senses shone more brightly by day and by night and Hamza hastened to death on roads lined by the army of Prophets . |
| 29 | Now , as he grew older and more mature , especially after his hectic and sometimes horrifying war experiences , he realised how lucky he was to be born and live in such a place . |
| 30 | Although the lad was not , I judged , more than three years old , he was well aware already of his charisma and his potential , and he 'd become more conscious of it as he grew older and would have no qualms about dragging the adults he fancied into his net . |