Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president was heckled by ex-servicemen as he laid a wreath at the Vietnam memorial . |
| 2 | I shook my head and shrugged my shoulders at her , trying not to look into the child 's large eyes filling with tears as he gazed petulantly at me , his underlip thrust out . |
| 3 | The referee , who needed a police escort from the pitch , was pelted with missiles as he spoke to an officer . |
| 4 | Chelsea fans applauded Le Saux off the pitch but the cheers turned to boos as he stormed off . |
| 5 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ the man replied between gasps as he heaved at the oars , ‘ there is something I can tell you . ’ |
| 7 | It was lively as usual , the mishmash of pop music blaring through loudspeakers as he walked among the crowd , mostly young people on the look-out for instant fun and excitement in an otherwise dreary world . |
| 8 | He strove with words as he strove with brush , pen , or etching needle to give the public equal sensations . |
| 9 | Geoffrey 's wine-flushed face was wreathed in smiles as he gripped her hand more firmly . |
| 10 | Ten months later 18-year-old teaboy Abdul Khalid was riddled with bullets as he sat in his car at Silverbridge in south Armagh . |
| 11 | His eyes filled with tears as he turned towards Madge . |
| 12 | Finn stood there helplessly for a moment , his own breath coming in gasps as he looked into the wild eyes of his superior . |
| 13 | At one point , Dr Stroud had been reduced to tears as he tried to pull his gloves over his frost-bitten fingers . |
| 14 | DETECTIVE Chief Inspector Bob Small had his Vauxhall Nova stolen by joyriders as he delivered a speech on how to stop car thefts . |
| 15 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 16 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |
| 17 | Craig 's hands tightened into fists as he saw his brother , flanked by his mother and Emily , step forward and throw a little earth into the grave . |
| 18 | It contains an imprisoned Chaos Warrior , mutated by Drachenfels as he felt befitted a servant of Tzeentch . |
| 19 | ‘ ’ remarked from Faverolles as he prepared for the Blind-man 's buff competition . |
| 20 | GARDENER Philip Hodges bled to death after falling on shears as he cut a hedge . |
| 21 | John Fenn , prosecuting , said Youds was spotted by police as he drove his G-registration Vauxhall Cavalier along the westbound carriageway of the A45 . |
| 22 | He was an exacting colleague , and college meetings lasted for hours as he reminisced about the past ; but it was his way of educating the fellows in the traditions of the college . |
| 23 | A 46-six-year old father of three died after his booby-trapped car exploded and burst into flames as he tried to leave Castle Street car park on April 6 1991 . |
| 24 | On Jan. 22 Michael Wortley , a British employee at the Panguna mine , was killed by rebels as he attempted to clear an emergency airstrip for the evacuation of the remainder of the mine 's employees . |
| 25 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |