Example sentences of "him as [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found the watchman asleep under a tree , his legs curled up under him as they had been when he had pantomimed the way he had found the body , his turban neatly parked beside him . |
| 2 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ Frau Nordern sat bolt upright and gave Marx her commanding glare which , however , did not have quite the same effect on him as it had done on the Duty Officer . |
| 4 | Despite Arnold Palmer 's memorable 1962 — when once again the golden hat-trick eluded him as it had in 1960 , with Open Championship and US Masters success , and only losing the US Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus — he had a quiet Open in 1963 . |
| 5 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 6 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 7 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 9 | He wondered , once , if she would weep for him as she had done for Ansaldo . |
| 10 | She was particularly glad to see him as she had just been told she was pregnant . |
| 11 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 12 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 13 | Werewolf stayed upright , but then he 'd never been as close to him as I had . |
| 14 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 15 | Instead , she grasped him as he had never been grasped before . |
| 16 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 17 | She had whored him as he had whored so many . |
| 18 | He knew that Sheldukher would not hesitate to carry out his threat , and also that he was far too intelligent to risk attempting to deceive him as he had Fakrid . |
| 19 | One of Bri 's great loves , literature , became a nightmare for him as he had to defend even the most off-hand comment . |
| 20 | She played with him as he had played with , played her . |
| 21 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 22 | If she had slept with him , he had meant , and agreed to move in with him as he had wanted . |
| 23 | Folly felt something burst inside her , and she no longer wanted just to escape Luke ; she wanted to strike out at him ; hurt him as he had hurt her . |
| 24 | He had returned earlier in the day and Maeve was as ecstatic to see him as he had been hungry for her . |
| 25 | She saw that she must do exactly that — run away from him as he had suggested , but as far away as she could go ! |
| 26 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , Franco did not make an example of him as he had done in previous such instances of " insubordination " , but appointed him as Ambassador to the Holy See . |
| 28 | The warrant officer was speechless , but not for long and he thundered at him as he had on me a few minutes before . |
| 29 | Again Shiona was filled with the urge to say it , to hurt him as he had so often hurt her . |
| 30 | She could n't finish because that would be pushy if she admitted she expected him to ask her to stay with him as he had done once before . |