Example sentences of "soon as he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As soon as he realised the serious nature of what he was doing he stopped and apologised . ’ |
| 2 | Kenneth impressed them where I had failed , and our room was upgraded to a suite as soon as he laid the lardy accent on them . |
| 3 | He held him down one-handed , smiling at his heavings and pantings as he struggled to break free ; but as soon as he tossed the straining wrists away from him and sat back on his heel to rise , Harry made a furious lunge for the hilt of the dagger Isambard himself had disdained to draw . |
| 4 | JB , who lives with his publican owners , always makes a bee-line for the regulars as soon as he hears the last orders bell . |
| 5 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 6 | He rolled as soon as he hit the soft earth and crashed into the base of a tree . |
| 7 | CARL LLEWELLYN ( Party Politics ) : ‘ As soon as he jumped the first fence I gained in confidence . |
| 8 | David Swan , who had arrived that afternoon to join his wife Carole at the conference , spotted Amaranth Wilikins almost as soon as he entered the Grand Hotel . |
| 9 | As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ . |
| 10 | As long as a son holds on to the mother as a love-object he must ineluctably be in conflict with the father , just as , conversely , as soon as he accepts the paternal authority and identifies with his father to constitute his superego he must suppress his fundamental parricidal antagonism and with it his incestuous fixation . |
| 11 | Similarly , as soon as he shows the smallest sign of being too cold , or too warm , his environment is manipulated to create the conditions of maximum comfort . |
| 12 | As soon as he shows the slight movements that herald developing hunger , he is put to the breast . |