Example sentences of "as he [vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because — as he realizes with a shock — he is remarkably well dressed . |
| 2 | The physical and emotional violence McBurney brings to the tormented king as he rages among the toys in his young son 's nursery has the sickening impact of a kick in the solar plexus . |
| 3 | His , his personal stereo headphones get knocked off as he falls to the floor , and dinkly dinkly dinkly dinkly , |
| 4 | Then , set against the incredibly complicated French and Indian Wars , the actual story has Hawkeye falling in with the Brits as he falls for the daughter ( Stowe ) of a Scots officer . |
| 5 | As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes , he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes . |
| 6 | Bored as he waits for the liquid to boil , eyed admiringly by his pint-sized partner , he plays with wooden spills , dipping them into the solution and passing them through the flame beneath . |
| 7 | He taps his pencil up and down as he waits for the finance director to finish . |
| 8 | As he waits at a stop-light somewhere out beyond the freightyards he drums his fingers on the steering wheel and gazes in front of him , thinking . |
| 9 | You can not see the bearers until they are right by you so the effect is of the person floating on air as he passes along the heads of the crowd and leans over to shake hands . |
| 10 | Not everyone is familiar with these two interesting variations in lock construction , so that the lucid descriptions in Eric de Mare 's excellent little book , The Canals of England are worth quoting , especially as he refers in the book directly to the Grand Union examples . |
| 11 | Fred opens a can of beer , switches on the TV , groans as he slumps over the sofa and looks at the paint peeling off the ceiling . |
| 12 | As he continues with the prayer that those who receive the sacrament may " be fulfilled with all hevenly benediction and grace through Jesus Christ " , so Rolle in The Form of Living now turns to a description of the interior awareness of this fulfilment . |
| 13 | ROS raises himself on his elbows and shades his eyes as he stares into the auditorium . |
| 14 | Oh , I have seen that boy 's face full of fear as he stares through a window at me passing in a swirl of snow . |
| 15 | Of course , the information they glean is of little value if the Goblin is pulverised as he impacts with the ground . |
| 16 | Nigel screams with delight as he revels in the applause after becoming new world champion Picture : ARNOLD SLATER |
| 17 | They follow him as he goes through the sky and when he leaves the sky they look for him all night . |
| 18 | They are more likely to enjoy the games themselves , and so can help the patient to have fun as he goes through the relearning process . |
| 19 | And as he goes under the hooves Andy looks around for John , eyes wide , but John can not help him . |
| 20 | An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter . |
| 21 | Now watch as he goes round the roundabout . |
| 22 | As he pushes through the swing doors and walks down the corridor towards his office , he can hear them spluttering with stifled laughter . |
| 23 | I watch Fairfax carefully as he talks to the laibon . |
| 24 | We may ask an observer to carry a device which records his position , velocity and acceleration as a function of time as he mingles with the crowd or we may set up two observation posts at the entrance and count the number of people per second passing across the space between the posts . |
| 25 | David Mellor is besieged by a press posse as he arrives for a showdown at The Last Chance Saloon last night Picture : KEN LENNOX |
| 26 | The male oriental fruit moth employs greater subterfuge by producing a scent similar to the female 's as soon as he arrives on the scene . |
| 27 | As Joseph Califano observes , ‘ Television is critical to the president , initially in his attempt to reach office , then in the exercise of his power as he presents to the people his policies , programs and interpretations of events . ’ |
| 28 | As long as he operates within the law , nobody seems to suggest that an obstetrician or other medical practitioner should provide his services free , or that receiving a fee makes either his motives or his reliability suspect ; and clinics can legally be run for profit . |
| 29 | Soon as he gets behind the wheel of a car he 's an absolute dickhead . |
| 30 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |