Example sentences of "[noun pl] as he walked " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny clouds swirled about his legs as he walked . |
| 2 | I , Jessel , saw the heaviness in his legs as he walked up the lane . |
| 3 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was weak and found it difficult to pick up his feet as he walked . |
| 7 | The ground was already thick with frost which crunched beneath his feet as he walked . |
| 8 | He heard the lamentations and cries as he walked through the Galilee Gate , and hurried around to the main entrance where a distraught Lady Amelia was being supported by the two Sub-prioresses , their own cheeks wet with tears . |
| 9 | One evening , however , as the never-failing north wind freshened , rustling the tops of the dom palms as he walked back to the harbour quarter , he had the impression that someone was dogging his steps . |
| 10 | A YOUNG doctor was attacked by two youths as he walked his dogs on a Middlesbrough housing estate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The other two men were taller , one lanky , with slow flapping hands as he walked — ; Miranda guessed he had not lived in London long . |
| 13 | Several hours later , a Liverpool University lecturer was mugged by two men as he walked home from the fireworks display in Sefton Park . |
| 14 | He smelled frying bacon and heard the chatter of women as he walked across the tiled hall and let himself out through a side door . |
| 15 | It was in an adult education college where the long corridors were lined with notice-boards and lists that fluttered like dead leaves as he walked past . |
| 16 | The receptionist at the hotel had given him a key to the front door and his mind was a chaotic mixture of emotions and thoughts as he walked past it towards the shore . |
| 17 | Remembering his own thoughts as he walked towards the door last night , not knowing it was Laura , thinking it was Alexandra and feeling his freewheeling lifestyle threatened , his macho image slightly dented , he realized he must be mad . |
| 18 | The victim was confronted by a group of youths and stabbed four times as he walked home at Bletchley in Milton Keynes . |
| 19 | A medieval visitor to Cambridge would have passed twelve churches as he walked through the town , roughly a hundred yards apart over a stretch of a mile ; and Cambridge was a very modest town . |
| 20 | It was hard to see and he touched the stones as he walked along by the wall . |