Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] as he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked as he began fixing the rear safety straps so that she would n't roll off the seat if he had to brake suddenly . |
| 2 | It is important that you negotiate with a man you trust as he has to agree to practise safer sex from test to pregnancy — which may take a considerable time . |
| 3 | She realized as he started to load the projector that he probably did n't have many people to talk to . |
| 4 | She stopped as he began to shake with suppressed laughter , then added indignantly , ‘ I 'm serious , Robert . |
| 5 | Omero knew exactly what she meant as he had broken a tooth as a result of eating rock given to him by visitors at Easter , and sometimes it really hurts . |
| 6 | She lay as he had left her , moored fore and aft to the dock . |
| 7 | Disappointed , Tug turned back to the sink , listening vaguely to what she said as he began to wash up . |
| 8 | ‘ Herr Wolff , ’ she said as he started to leave her , ‘ I hope you and your brother understand that , though I am grateful for your trust , I do not admire your judgement . |
| 9 | ‘ No , no , this is fine , ’ she said as he suggested making a new pot . |
| 10 | It slipped down again and she could hear him swearing as he tried to haul it up . |
| 11 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 12 | ‘ Better get moving , ’ he thought He stopped as he turned Had he imagined it , no , he was sure something had flashed in the moonlight It must have been a good quarter of a mile away , towards the middle of the estuary . |
| 13 | He felt as he had done when a small boy and rain or some other calamity of nature had kept him from a picnic , resentful and somewhat indignant . |
| 14 | ‘ The saints preserve us ! ’ he said as he struggled to open it . |
| 15 | ‘ No one told me , ’ he said as he began pacing round the room . |
| 16 | These , too , he left as he had found them . |
| 17 | He begins as he means to go on , pooh-poohing the story that Dickens ' mother went to a ball in Plymouth the night before his birth : ‘ No ball is mentioned in the area for that particular evening . ’ |