Example sentences of "as he [verb] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , the most she could hope for was his speedy return to Hong Kong , but for now she supposed she would just have to endure a certain amount of contact , as he had warned her earlier at the party just before leaving her with Cavell Fielding and Penny Seu Chen . |
| 2 | And the glint in his eye as he had enjoyed her earlier discomfiture convinced her he would not miss such an opportunity to embarrass her further . |
| 3 | She was glad to dive into her own room and as he had promised her little balcony faced the Sierra Nevada . |
| 4 | There was a dish of cat food down for him , plus a dish of tuna fish chunks ( in soya oil as he likes to preserve his kittenish figure ) and a saucer of rapidly separating cream . |
| 5 | Even after bidding a fond farewell to Ben and Carole Meadows , there still had n't been the opportunity to have anything other than a few brief casual words with Ross as he 'd driven them all back to New York . |
| 6 | He stepped closer , and her heart somersaulted in her chest as he reached to cup her hot face in his hands , inspecting her stormy expression through lidded , thoughtful eyes . |
| 7 | On a set of Heath Robinson ingenuity with suspended buckets , antique plumbing and piles of dusty books and furniture — all part of the Miser 's hoard of battered possessions — Tom Courtenay schemes , struts and raves as he seeks to protect his two million francs . |
| 8 | His eyes blazed down at her , as he proceeded to issue his final order . |
| 9 | The man 's hand was warm , tinglingly warm , surprisingly gentle too on her skin , as he bent to examine her bruising and moved her foot this way and that . |
| 10 | Jackie 's face tied itself in a knot as he tried to remember his own mother . |
| 11 | She watched the vibrator disappear up his rectum ; and heard his gasp as he tried to move his swollen prong inside her . |
| 12 | Meredith watched the struggle on the man 's face as he tried to control his wayward mouth , and wondered why he did n't want to grin when he was so obviously amused by her cheek . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're so lovely … for years I 've dreamed of you lying beside me like this ! ’ he breathed thickly , his powerful body shaking with tension as he tried to control his mounting passion . |
| 14 | She started to come again as he tried to slide his whole hand deep into her soaked vagina . |
| 15 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 16 | While Patsy silently and privately swore his revenge as he tried to scrub himself clean . |
| 17 | never tell , a girl we know went over at the same time as he did got it this year . |
| 18 | For him , this meant giving master classes in duplicity in order to keep both Axis and Allies in play for as long as he needed to achieve his economic , military and , above all , territorial objectives . |
| 19 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 20 | HE 'S the wackiest cop on TV — and he aims to make you groan like never before as he tries to crack his latest case . |
| 21 | Having a go at the piker , the bilker and the debtor as he tries to shield his recession-affected business or his mortgaged home from just retribution must surely count as sport . |