Example sentences of "[adj] as he [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arms closed around her instantly , fiercely possessive as he pulled her against him . |
| 2 | His eyes were dark as he led her into the bedroom and closed the door behind them . |
| 3 | He moved closer , delving in the pocket of his dinner jacket to lift out a carton of cigarettes and light one , his pale eyes gleaming as he studied her over the glowing tip . |
| 4 | The Floridante Overture nearly throws him off as he takes the corners with no evidence of concern for his own safety , but the overall effect is thrilling as he leads us on an absorbing and unexpected journey with an orchestra and cast consisting , in the main , of unknown and unpronounceable Hungarians . |
| 5 | She lay still as he stroked her like a cat , and the love juice began to ooze from her to dampen the whole area of her crotch . |
| 6 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 7 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 8 | His eyes were unreadable as he helped her into his car . |
| 9 | With some wild , unplanned , unfocused idea of shaming him with feminine helplessness , she stayed mute as he drew her into his arms , and remained passive as he gathered her up to him . |
| 10 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 11 | It was true ; his headache had come back again but it was n't that bad , not as bad as he got them in term-time . |