Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For six years , on battlefields and in sieges , they had fought side by side and Harper , as soon as he heard of the new war , had waited for a word from his old officer . |
| 2 | They watched in silence until he came closer , then , as he swooped between the grey walls of the drawbridge and came clattering into the courtyard over cobblestones that were now covered only by a thin film of slush , Marc deliberately removed his arm from around her waist . |
| 3 | Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard . |
| 4 | He was back in bed with Betty , getting there , getting there , his foot on the accelerator as he shot across the main road that took a steady morning stream of vehicles to the coast . |
| 5 | They were heavy , as he knew from the numbing pain in his shin . |
| 6 | Expert in controlling his tone , he scarcely hesitated as he passed over the customary nickname , for Hector Luath would be swift no longer . |
| 7 | As he passed round the far side of Daisy , Gareth could feel the marshy ground clinging with each stride . |
| 8 | His slender figure was plunged first into light then into shadow as he passed before the slitted windows . |
| 9 | Elsie had wept for kind Mrs Doran and for her husband , that strange , silent , sympathetic man , lifting his feet cautiously as he sidled across the polished floor . |
| 10 | There was no shelter to make for , anywhere on the long , wide ridge , and the heather and the little bushes would tangle his feet and trip him as soon as he strayed from the straight path . |
| 11 | If she made no response , he might well climb over the wall all the same , as he had on the previous night ; on the other hand if she went to him and they were caught his offence would be deemed the worse , for being found on Roscarrock property was one thing , but being caught dallying with a servant girl was another . |
| 12 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 13 | And in 1982 Gemayel still saw it as he had in the late 1930s , as a movement of renewal that prepared Lebanon 's young Christians for independence and civic responsibility . |
| 14 | In James ' view , it could not because it was not , and , as he had throughout the previous decade , he remained implacably opposed to the Soviet regime under Stalin . |
| 15 | IAN WOOSNAM , so out of form coming into the Masters , nevertheless began to put up an heroic defence at Augusta National yesterday and was within a stroke of the lead as he came into the finishing holes in his second round . |
| 16 | Dr Nolan looked deadbeat as he came into the little bedroom at Milltown . |
| 17 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 18 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |
| 19 | The sandy-haired man 's eyes narrowed as he took in the possessive gesture , but he made no comment on it . |
| 20 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 21 | He took her arm , and short of starting an undignified fight she saw no option but to join him as he strolled towards the white-painted gate , set in the surrounding outer stone walls . |
| 22 | There was something comfortingly familiar in this maddening ruin , this mythagoscape , generated by a burned airman many years in the past , created by him as he journeyed to the innermost and most ancient place of all . |
| 23 | The cello concerto swelling through the house , the briny tang of the scallops in their marinade , doors opening and closing as he searched for the missing due . |
| 24 | But the man 's melon-sized grin as he scampered into the sodden winner 's enclosure to welcome Rambo 's Hall indicated more than that . |
| 25 | Tommy bolted off like a greyhound released from the slips , and the two other men watched as he scampered across the open ground , until some twenty seconds later he reached the safety of the trees . |
| 26 | He paused as he tugged off the filthy tarpaulin . |
| 27 | That evening Charlie hardly opened his mouth as he listened to the different accents of the men babbling around him . |
| 28 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 29 | They watched as he ran into the black mouth of the tunnel . |
| 30 | We pushed our way through the throng and stood before the fellow as he slouched over the grease-stained table . |