Example sentences of "as he stood [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She never ceases to amaze me , ’ he said , Perrier water with lime clutched to his chest as he stood on the balcony above the stage where Kylie was ridding herself forever of her cutesy image . |
| 2 | As he stood on the stage he felt pouring out from the audience that most British of reflexes : the will for the underdog to win . |
| 3 | As he stood on the steps before the heavy front door and dug in his pocket for his keys he could hear the ringing of a telephone , blanked and muffled by several layers of brick and plaster . |
| 4 | ‘ So what you learn from such a bold step ? ’ asked Dan Salmon as he stood on the doorstep of his shop , skull cap on the back of his head , thumbs lodged in the black waistcoat pockets that proudly displayed his half-hunter watch . |
| 5 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 6 | She could tell this by looking at his back as he stood at the bar ordering more drinks . |
| 7 | Not yesterday , Peter thought grimly , as he stood at the kitchen table laying the tea tray with his mother 's china ; but certainly last week or the week before . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you call the police ? ’ he asked , as he stood at the kitchen door watching her brew Darjeeling . |
| 9 | Lee watched Gabriel as he stood at the window facing out . |
| 10 | Evans got his blow in first as he stood at the door , ushered them into a large office overlooking the Kaiserstrasse . |
| 11 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 12 | In light of this , he expected no reward but this day he knew he had received one as he stood at the door of a ward of children on whom he had operated , now sleeping peacefully and painlessly . |
| 13 | In the first as he stood at the mouth of the cave , a typhoon burst on the mountainside , bringing rocks crashing down . |
| 14 | Sometimes Flavia Sherman wept as though with grief , and although the storm drowned most of her cries Joseph heard the faint sounds of his mother sobbing as he stood outside the hut in the torrential downpour . |
| 15 | Phil Jay , 50 , was assaulted in September as he stood outside the Plantation Hotel in Chester . |
| 16 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 17 | She watched as he stood beside the car for a moment looking up towards the house . |
| 18 | He felt as if he was about to take his first woman , and as he stood beneath the trees , watching her running towards him , Fergus felt himself trembling . |
| 19 | Joe , looking dumbly at him as he stood in the hall , saw a man whose youth seemed to have fled from him . |
| 20 | His voice trembled as he stood in the pulpit . |
| 21 | Something about the note of that call , something about Thorfinn 's manner as he stood in the yard listening to the stammering rider who stood grasping his saddle and speaking into his ear made Eochaid 's shaven scalp tingle , and his body shrank , for a moment , from its clothing . |
| 22 | And if Elinor 's mother should break down he would sob operatically and people would say to each other , as he stood by the flowers afterwards , ‘ My , my . |
| 23 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 24 | She looked at him now , a pathetic and solitary figure almost like a small boy as he stood before the man who had always dominated and manipulated him ; certainly , there was an air of obedient subservience as he fidgeted uncomfortably , his dark brown hair falling lankly over his forehead and vivid brown eyes large with sadness . |