Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treasurer Lipsky , the community 's dentist , ground his teeth as he bowed to her adamantine will . |
| 2 | Wishart rubbed his hands together , cracking his knuckles as he tried to control his anger . |
| 3 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
| 4 | Puritan and Calvinistic tradition would not approve of actually enjoying such a ceremony and no doubt someone would have pointed out that Ruth first caught Boaz 's eye by uncovering his feet as he slept and lying alongside them . |
| 5 | I looked up in time to see him place his cap on his head and look round the kitchen , patting his pockets as he did so . |
| 6 | She clung to the front of her costume , gritting her teeth as he widened the circle of massage , smoothing the cream over her shoulders and down towards the small of her back . |
| 7 | Hodai shaded his eyes as he looked back . |
| 8 | ‘ Any use to you ? ’ he asked , snapping open his eyes as he heard the rustle of her skirt as she changed position . |
| 9 | He said nothing more for a while , leaving Ellie to stand waiting his instructions as he walked slowly round the room , as if to make sure nothing else had been violated . |
| 10 | He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet . |
| 11 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 12 | Karl Marx said that the bourgeoisie would suffer from the carbuncles that afflicted his buttocks as he composed Das Kapital . |
| 13 | To shut his eyes as he rode was another . |
| 14 | The Doctor ran from the centre of the room loosening his hands as he fled . |
| 15 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 16 | Before she had time to protest he had locked the doors and , removing his glasses as he went , walked briskly over the road . |
| 17 | An admiring smile curved his lips as he rested back against the boulder and closed his eyes . |
| 18 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 19 | He shuffled his feet as he copied the true exponents and saluted seconds after the others had finished . |
| 20 | Graham sat in the deserted dining car for some time after regaining consciousness , his trembling fingers gently massaging his temples as he tried to overcome the throbbing in his head . |
| 21 | They could n't help imagining the wolf licking his lips as he crouched over poor Goosie Lucy 's headless body . |
| 22 | She caught sight of it and put up her other hand , and with a finger stroked his bottom lip until he flinched and turned his head away , parting his lips as he did so however to bite her finger slightly , and close on it . |
| 23 | Another man escaped from a back window , cutting his hands as he smashed a way through … blood from the injury still evident on the doorstep of the neighbouring house where he raised the alarm . |
| 24 | A MOTORIST has been fined £50 for brushing his hair and admiring his looks as he drove at 50mph . |
| 25 | She watched his hands as he started the car , firm but sensitive on the wheel . |
| 26 | She watched his hands as he pushed open the packet and pulled out a cigarette . |
| 27 | She kicked out of the bikini-bottom that Fernando had succeeded in half tearing from her and struck out for the furthest end of the pool , laughter gripping her and weakening her limbs as he lashed out after her . |
| 28 | Kenneth rotated his shoulders as he drove , trying to ease the nagging pain in them that too much drink the night before always seemed to give him these days . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd throw it in their teeth , ’ Moran clenched and unclenched his hands as he spoke . |
| 30 | Benjamin stared down at his wife , blinking his eyes as he swayed unsteadily before her . |