Example sentences of "as he put [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She nodded , handed it to him and watched as he put her key into one of the locks and the duplicate he carried into the other , turning both simultaneously . |
| 2 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |
| 3 | As he put her back on her feet , George threw back his head and shouted at the top of his voice — ‘ Ya — ha ! |
| 4 | ‘ In that case , ’ Maggie said happily , snuggling against him as he put her in the car and came to sit beside her , ‘ I wo n't argue . ’ |
| 5 | His hands went to her shoulders , gripping them firmly , and as he put her away from him he said in a low voice that shook slightly , ‘ Do you know what one does when one falls off a horse ? |
| 6 | As he put his foot on the doorstep , a young man seemed to jostle him — it was young McCulloch from Weem , the sulky handsome lad with the curly head — why had he come hanging about here instead of hearing his own man preach in Weem ? |
| 7 | As he put his hand in his pocket he was grabbed from behind and they razored his face . |
| 8 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 9 | As he put his hand in his pocket to withdraw a few coins he knew that he was lost . |
| 10 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 11 | As he put his hand inside there was a squawking and a scrabbling of claws and flapping wings . |
| 12 | But as he put his hand beneath her nearside elbow , he felt the faintest heartbeat and , to his joy , the mare struck feebly out at him with her off-fore and gave a half-whicker of recognition which turned into a groan . |
| 13 | He could n't see Ruane 's face because it was bent below the rim of the desk , as he put his shoes back on . |
| 14 | Then he kissed her , felt her breath release as she felt the force of his passion as he put his arms around her waist , as he pulled her towards him . |
| 15 | Billy sat in a far corner of the little pub with Chopper Harris , Frankie Albright and Freddie the Nark , and Freddie was trying hard to sound convincing as he put his plan over to his friends . |
| 16 | ‘ The ole cow saw me clump 'im frew the office winder an' she phoned fer the police , ’ he said as he put his mug down on the wooden table . |
| 17 | George frowned as he put his mask neatly in the brown carrier bag before driving home . |
| 18 | When Huw reached the entrance to the dock , the gates appeared to be shut , but as soon as he put his hand to them , they swung open and he found that the chain and padlock had been taken off . |
| 19 | He would come running up the stairs , torn between anxiety for her and fear of disturbing Miss Willard , his face suddenly old with weariness and concern as he put his arms round her trembling shoulders . |
| 20 | Matthew 's phone was ringing as he put his key into the lock of his door . |
| 21 | " Many happy returns , " he said to himself , then suddenly gulped as he put his hand to his mouth and looked around . |
| 22 | Not a word as he put his foot back in the stirrup iron ( only stable boys and jockeys jump up from the ground ) a hand across the saddle-tree , and he was up , quick and certain as a fly landing . |
| 23 | Then as soon as he put his cards on the table she 'd tell him he was mistaken , and leave … |
| 24 | Reluctantly she assented , but her heart was beating fast as he put his arm round her . |
| 25 | Mm because his account was frozen as soon as he put his card in it took it in ! |
| 26 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 27 | In his view , there are times when you have to fight fire with fire , or , as he put it rather more eloquently during his defence of the Grand Slam Cup decision , ‘ It was a sad reality that we were left with no real option but to protect tradition with the modern deterrent — money . ’ |
| 28 | When chided by his questioner about signing the Helsinki accords on human rights which , the questioner suggested , allowed the Russians to have dominance in eastern Europe , Mr Ford , as he put it , ‘ pranced with both feet across the open mine field ’ . |
| 29 | One of them , Peter Cornwell , later published a sunlit retrospect of what it was like to be one of Ebor 's ordinands , and how he valued the privilege that the bishop who ordained him was a thinker , as he put it , so profound . |
| 30 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |