Example sentences of "as he [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right ! ’ said Fen as he finished knocking in the strong metal pins for tying up the bows and stern of the boat . |
| 2 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 3 | For a boss , in fact , he was a very human man , who had hardly tried to hide the tears behind his eyes as he had stepped into the Mercedes earlier . |
| 4 | As he stood waiting for the kettle to boil , he reflected that he had nothing so good and lavish as he had observed through the open door of Mrs Farmer 's kitchen . |
| 5 | Auguste , or Mr Dee as he had become over the week , smiled . |
| 6 | As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden . |
| 7 | He looked as icily cold as he had done on the other two occasions she had met him . |
| 8 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 9 | He took her arm as he had done at the house , his hand under her elbow , her weight against him , and she was powerless to alter the facts . |
| 10 | He decided to rid the army , as he had done with the party of any possible opposition . |
| 11 | As he had done with the Axis in 1940 and the Allies in 1945 , Franco considered that the foreign powers were in his debt and , therefore , that he , not they , should lay down the terms of Spanish cooperation . |
| 12 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 13 | And then suddenly he did stop and she was all sticky and messy and she thought he would speak to her now and comfort her or beg her in his whisper to kiss him , as he had done under the bridge the other nights they 'd met . |
| 14 | At the end of each day , as he had done since the beginning of the autumn , Robert took him home , where Mr and Mrs Wilson petted him , fed him , and put him to sleep in the spare bedroom as if he were their own son . |
| 15 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 16 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 17 | The Feldwebel bounced up and down on his seat with laughter as he had done in the car at Amsterdam . |
| 18 | From a free-kick on the left , Gannon swung the ball deep and Morris , not as heavy as he had appeared from the previous half-hour , made the game safe with a soaring header . |
| 19 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 20 | In Suger s case , this power was given sharper focus by its place at the apex of the terrestrial hierarchy ; for , as he had learned from the presumed patron of his monastery , Pseudo-Dionysius , this was the proper ordering of earthly political authority . |
| 21 | He outlined his purpose to the pair of journalists in much the same words as he had used to the members of the nascent Rothschild CPRS on the lawn at No. 10 in 1971 : |
| 22 | was unable to savour his victory , however , as he had died during the course of the hearings ( is there a moral here somewhere ? ) |
| 23 | Which was true , though that morning , as he had spied on the French , Sharpe had recognized in himself the undeniable pleasure of doing his job well . |
| 24 | As he had shown during the German occupation , there was no substitute for an early and accurate reading of the trajectory of events . |
| 25 | As he had walked through the doorway , he just caught a glimpse of Mary snatching Billy 's hand off her right breast . |
| 26 | The warmth from the hot pipe that skirted a side wall billowed across Holly 's face , rubbed at the cold that had settled under his tunic and shirt as he had walked from the compound with the trustie from Internal Order . |
| 27 | The bag and the oil had nestled behind his testicles , held in place by his underpants , as he had walked from the Factory to Hut 2 , evaded the evening search . |
| 28 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 29 | The other guests were stunned into silence as he began swinging into the gaggle of giggling photographers . |
| 30 | Instead there was only a blazing , triumphant surge of fulfilment as she accepted the fullness of Rune 's body into her own , and a mounting sense of exhilaration as he began to move in the age-old rhythm of possession . |