Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had taken to her marriage-bed , therefore , a certain natural innocence and all the ignorance considered essential to her station , of which Tristan had relieved her as gently and pleasantly as he had been able , his passion lacking the intensity which might , on those honeymoon nights , have alarmed her ; being , instead , a lighthearted matter , full of the nonchalant reflections of the man himself . |
| 2 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 3 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
| 4 | So as soon as he gets told he 'll be |
| 5 | So as soon as he saw Bill Brice sink chubbily to his knees , he jumped to the conclusion that some brief word of informal prayer was going to be said . |
| 6 | so as soon as he comes , soon as |
| 7 | as so , more or less as soon as he 'd said hello he said erm thirty two and two minutes past the hour , they 're your trains . |
| 8 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's true about Nicola Schreider , ’ Lucy confirmed , at length , rocking her baby son backwards and forwards as he showed signs of exercising the excellent lungs Charles had described . |
| 10 | could n't wait to get away as soon as he got his bloody present , he was |
| 11 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 12 | He had every intention of getting the hell out of Paris just as soon as he had collected all the money owed to him . |
| 13 | Soon as soon as he starts talking about cars yap yap yap yap yap yap he does n't stop . |
| 14 | And those breasts Dan ogled her innocently and unashamedly as he approached her , and continued to gawk over his shoulder after passing . |
| 15 | He is against the proposed plan to introduce a 10-team league playing each other home and away as he feels it would be asking too much of the players . |
| 16 | But Charles switched his smile off as soon as he left . |
| 17 | He promised to send more money home as soon as he got paid , and he wanted her to look after his puppy , which he guessed by now would be a full-grown collie . |
| 18 | However , it is a well known fact that all Spanish men are born with a football in their mouth and so I am sure his dormant skills will blossom forth as soon as he walks out on to the park . |
| 19 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 20 | Oz edged carefully down the slope , crouching every now and then as he reached a little bilberry bush . |
| 21 | Check that you have the positioning right and encourage your baby to feed for as often and long as he wants to stimulate the flow . |
| 22 | They sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology . |
| 23 | The skin beneath his chin hung in thick folds that swayed back and forth as he walked . |
| 24 | Even Michael Bridges , the Echo man ( Kegan had leaned over to Briant and pointed him out as soon as he came in ) , sat sprawled in seeming boredom in his chair at the end of the front row . |
| 25 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 26 | No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety . |
| 27 | Only a glimpse though , for the large figure darted back as soon as he saw them . |
| 28 | With an enjoyment that came back as soon as he started to work , he invented a solo routine that was deliberately and taxingly physical . |
| 29 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |
| 30 | These movements are similar to the normal rotations of the pelvis when you stand up , so the patient is practising them in order not to jerk upwards awkwardly or sideways as he stands , as this would inevitably knock him off balance . |