Example sentences of "him [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 2 | She heard him returning just as she sat back to admire her handiwork . |
| 3 | ‘ Patsy , will you run down to Dr Johnson 's like a good girl and ask him to come over as soon as he can . |
| 4 | She remembered him laughing kindly as he said this , because he liked Joe , he liked Joe very much ; but at the same time he felt guilty about him , because in a way he had made use of him as a sort of cover . |
| 5 | It 's the only way to make sure — ’ The heart machine behind him bleeped noisily as his heartbeat shot up dramatically . |
| 6 | I saw him grinning ferally as he worked the gun with both hands , spent cartridges flying into the air . |
| 7 | Bucknor said it should be changed , but Azharuddin persuaded him to play on as the game was almost over . |
| 8 | What the admiring spectators did n't see was Zarei sitting in the first aid room and insisting those helping him look away as he took off his socks , ‘ because I do n't want to frighten you ’ , and later on slipping a tape of Irish Folk music in to his Walkman as he went back on to the track and muttering quietly to himself , ‘ that will help me stop thinking of the pain ’ . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , I should advise him to tread gently as yet in the march . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm — a virgin , ’ she told him honestly , and saw him move involuntarily as though startled , as though that had never occurred to him . |
| 11 | ignore her and er pop next door and I mean I do n't mind him popping out as long as he 's |
| 12 | Two things made him slow down as he came to the entrance . |
| 13 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 14 | She saw him scowl darkly as he scanned the page , and wondered for a few moments if perhaps , although he could speak her tongue almost as if he 'd been born in her country , he did not read English so well . |
| 15 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 16 | Her beauty made him gasp anew as she moved towards him smiling . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , he had cast the Marshal a grateful look when he saw him standing there as promised , watching with his big , slightly bulging eyes . |
| 18 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |
| 19 | I could not have him put down as I am a widow and he keeps me company . |
| 20 | " I 'm not seeing a girl , " Patrick insisted with a grin , his sister was as eager to see him married off as his mother was against the idea . |
| 21 | She watched him undress just as he 'd watched . |