Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun] as he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunbar was grinning in high content as he wheeled his horse to trot back to his own division . |
| 2 | She squeaked in simulated ecstasy as he plunged inside her . |
| 3 | He said : Any contract by which a person engages to give his exclusive services to another for a period necessarily involves extensive restriction during that period of the common law right to exercise any lawful activity he chooses in such manner as he thinks best . |
| 4 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 5 | Berg responded by getting up too , saying he must go but popping in another question as he backed towards the door . |
| 6 | The Frenchman 's voice betrayed no trace of humour , and his tanned , leathery face remained set in unsmiling lines as he spoke . |
| 7 | Inexorably Rose moved on through the entremets and coffee , sending eight people scurrying in all directions as he masterminded the performance , the objects of which were far from clear to Auguste . |
| 8 | Karen watched in puzzled amazement as he dropped the thing into the wastepaper basket . |
| 9 | He started in political life as he meant to go on , sympathising with ‘ Action Francaise ’ and making his first political gesture at the age of 26 as one of the threatening , right-wing mob who were driven back by police gunfire when they tried to storm the Chamber of Deputies in February 1934 . |
| 10 | The House , prepared to sympathize , listened in growing anger as he doddered on . |
| 11 | Andy Mason , of Newcastle A.C. , who is ranked in the UK decathlon list , looked in good form as he won the senior men 's 400 metres and 110 metres hurdles , and Tim Conners ( Ipswich Harriers ) was another runner to shine when he won the junior men 's 1500 metres . |
| 12 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 13 | Martin strode quickly towards him , picked up the phone , said , ‘ Yes ? ’ then listened ; and as he did so his head began to move in small jerks as he looked from side to side . |
| 14 | She bit her lip , writhing in suppressed fury as he continued driving . |
| 15 | ‘ YO , this is Dalek exercises , mon ! ’ booms Derrick Evans , his skin-tight leotard stretching in impossible directions as he throws himself around the GMTV studio . |