Example sentences of "as he prepare [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackburn boss Dalglish faced the nostalgia head-on as he prepared to lead out the opposition against Liverpool for the first time since his astonishing walk-out 20 months ago . |
| 2 | He wrote laconically that night to John Prior Estlin , leaving unstated the bewilderment he evidently felt as he prepared to exchange Somerset for Shropshire . |
| 3 | ‘ There , ’ said Penry , putting her aside gently as he prepared to pilot the Angharad into her anchorage . |
| 4 | Terry had taken off his trousers by now , and two women in the cast were looking through a gap in the curtain as he prepared to propagate his analysis of Pyke . |
| 5 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 6 | As he prepared to leave office five years later he warned the nation to ‘ guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex . ’ |
| 7 | William 's navy had failed dismally in not intercepting James 's convoy on its way from Brest in March and now the Comte de Châteaurenault [ or Château Renault ] had made the same voyage unchallenged , only being brought to battle on Wednesday 1 May 1689 , as he prepared to leave his anchorage . |
| 8 | The news came to Perth on the day of the King 's special council , and was brought to Thorfinn by Bishop Jon as he prepared to leave with Prior Eochaid for the Moot Hill . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm being very upfront about it , it 's finally time , 20 years later , ’ he told a writer as he prepared to record the album this time last year . |
| 10 | As he prepared to take full advantage of the situation he suddenly recalled a horrible memory . |
| 11 | The 37-year-old former England winger vowed he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract , saying : Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Anfield where they crashed 5-0 on Saturday . |
| 12 | Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup , after losing there 5-0 in the League on Saturday . |
| 13 | Michael Lee bowed slightly as he prepared to take his leave . |
| 14 | At the end of the negotiations , as he prepared to run off to salvage what he could from the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Nicaragua , North told the Iranians he had failed in his mission ‘ to start the process of healing between our countries ’ ; the two nations , Iran and America , were about to pass each other like ships in the night . |
| 15 | So , Crowe had a choice as he prepared to face Tufnell . |
| 16 | Finance Minister Gibson Chigaga died of a suspected heart attack after collapsing as he prepared to address a press conference at Lusaka airport on his return from Paris and London on March 25 . |
| 17 | The camera panned back as he prepared to play . |
| 18 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 19 | Jake smiled sadistically as he prepared to drop his bombshell . |
| 20 | Is the Mansell comeback saga just water off our Nige 's back as he prepares to celebrate his £6 million salary with Williams-Renault ? |
| 21 | Twenty years on , the odyssey ends for the Scotland coach as he prepares to take his curtain call from the Murrayfield stage , scene of today 's Royal Bank international against Wales ( 2:30pm ) . |
| 22 | But in his first televised interview since becoming president-elect , Clinton said he would focus ‘ like a laser beam ’ on the US economy as he prepares to take over the White House on January 20 . |
| 23 | He has a share in a four-seat Piper based at Teesside Airport and , as he prepares to retire on March 31 , he is looking forward to putting in more than his usual 70 hours a year flying time . |
| 24 | If he makes it , manager Howard Wilkinson 's only problem is who to name alongside Lee Chapman up front — Rod Wallace or Eric Cantona — as he prepares to stun Rangers with all the power of Leeds ' attacking force . |
| 25 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 26 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 27 | As he prepares to defend his reputation as well as what is inaccurately described as his undisputed world heavyweight title here tomorrow night against Riddick Bowe , he says : ‘ I realise that if I do n't win , I 'll be remembered as a bum . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Kinnock 's soft shoe shuffle , as he prepares to court the Liberal Democrats in the event of a hung Parliament , is an earnest of what could lie ahead . |
| 29 | ALL SMILES from Gazza as he prepares to make a sensational come-back — in England colours in Spain . |
| 30 | Oliver Stone is the latest to stir things up , as he prepares to begin filming ‘ JFK ’ in April . |