Example sentences of "him [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 2 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 3 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 4 | Joyce met his German contact in the Ministry of Propaganda , Christian Bauer , who was optimistic over finding employment for him so long as there was no war . |
| 5 | as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions , to co-operate with him so far as is necessary to enable that duty or requirement to be performed or complied with . |
| 6 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 7 | The red-haired striker then saw the keeper make two good saves from him soon after as Coleraine threatened . |
| 8 | In response to a question put to him shortly afterwards as to how many participating countries he thought would be necessary to make the proposed structure viable , Schuman simply stated , ‘ if necessary , we shall go ahead with only two ’ . |
| 9 | Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 14 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Russell laughed , and we all laughed : she knew him as well as that . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Perhaps another ‘ Why I am not a Roman Catholic ’ would be salutary from him as well as for them . |
| 19 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Fincara 's maddening laughter rippled out , and she stepped over to him as easily as a dancer . |
| 22 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |
| 23 | He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was clear that the events of 17 May 1968 had left their mark on him as indelibly as they had on Willy Morpurgo . |
| 26 | More important , perhaps , he was in normal uniform , which grounded him as surely as if he had been chained to the nearest hangar door . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It had originated from elsewhere , and infected him as surely as any virus . |
| 29 | New life , green as the holly leaf , was at work inside him as surely as it stirred inside his wife . |
| 30 | Why had it trapped him as neatly as she had done ? |