Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he , well he 's , he was wealthy enough to do exactly as he wanted . |
| 2 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 3 | When he touched a gentle knuckle to her cheek , she started ; her breath lodged somewhere in her throat and she could only stand helplessly as he untied the ribbon securing her hair . |
| 4 | He looked at her , the temper suddenly draining away as he assessed her expression . |
| 5 | He can not do just as he pleases . |
| 6 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 7 | Instantly , she thought of Ferdinando and whether he would go off to fight now as he had fought then . |
| 8 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 9 | As he walked back out into the foyer , the girls automatically straightened again as he passed them . |
| 10 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 11 | Ligier team-mate Martin Brundle 's had a luckless 100th grand prix and was forced to retire and Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with Williams also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 12 | He even smiled bravely as he carried on recording a show for the new series of You Bet , starting on Friday . |
| 13 | His head fell to the side ; his cheek to the canvas of the deck chair , and his feet slowly slipped forward as he fell into a deep sleep . |
| 14 | Danny O'Dell shook his head , and Ruth prayed that her son would not say with devastating candour : ‘ Your cake tastes funny ’ — then breathed again as he said politely , ‘ No more , thank you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 15 | ‘ Fear that you might leave Czechoslovakia without first returning to your hotel , ’ he replied , then grinned wryly as he added , ‘ For the first time in my life I find that I ca n't think logically — for why would you take a train to Mariánské Láznë to leave Czechoslovakia , when you could more easily take a plane from Prague ? |
| 16 | Paige arched into that possessive caress , then watched helplessly as he lowered his head and the moist warmth of his mouth closed over one thrusting peak , tongue teasing the nipple into a hard nub that he suckled until she cried out . |
| 17 | But his gaze was rigidly fixed ahead as he steered the little helicopter up the meandering Thames . |
| 18 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 19 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 20 | He was ruthless , arrogant , a man who casually did just as he pleased and to hell with the consequences , and it dawned on her that she was in dangerously close proximity to him . |
| 21 | Although the Panopticon was never built exactly as he designed it ( a modified version was constructed at Millbank on the Thames and opened , with extremely poor results , in 1917 ) , imprisonment rapidly became the pre-eminent method of punishment . |