Example sentences of "as he [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 2 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 3 | He had spoken the compliment as though he really meant it , just as he had the first time he 'd said it . |
| 4 | There he was , Prince Nicolo Sabatini , standing at the rear of the showroom , completely alone , his arms folded over his chest , watching her exactly as he had the first time she 'd set eyes on him , with such a fierce blend of desire and anger that her heart leaped into her throat . |
| 5 | PURSUIT OF LOVE shot to 5–1 favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas , on May 2 , with an emphatic two-length victory in yesterday 's European Free Handicap as he became the 200th winner trained by Henry Cecil for Lord Howard de Walden . |
| 6 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |
| 7 | He saw the spot of bright buttercup colour as he rounded the last curve before the crossroads . |
| 8 | Donald silenced them as he sang the first line , rather solemnly , in a rich baritone : |
| 9 | However , it ran out in its turn as he reached the next storey , occupied , Sunil had told him , by upper servants . |
| 10 | As he kept the last Christmas of his life at Saumur , he can hardly have failed to see how many of his barons stayed away , a sure sign that they were preparing to transfer their allegiance to Richard and Philip . |
| 11 | As he spoke the first name , the half silence became a dense one . |
| 12 | Taylor saw the dark destroyer at his devastating best as he grabbed the 18th minute winner . |
| 13 | As he reaches the first solo stage , therefore , the pupil must either achieve a standard of flying which does not leave room for criticism , or he must learn to accept the particular instructor 's comments as fair and helpful . |
| 14 | The next night , Captain Edward ( Ted ) Parsons RE and his paddler , Leading Seaman Irvine , prepared to land , Ted Parsons taking a ducking as he tried the first time to board the canoe in a nasty swell . |
| 15 | He shuddered as he pronounced the last word . |
| 16 | Billingsley asked as he threw the last cartridge overboard . |
| 17 | The balloon burst as he scrawled the last letter . |
| 18 | Sharpe had to duck under a low chestnut branch as he turned the next corner to see , five hundred yards ahead of him , the wide village street . |
| 19 | Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance . |
| 20 | At a certain time he would drive past that house , as he did every second day , and the position of his driver 's window , fully up , half-lowered or fully down , would convey to the watcher the thing he needed to know . |
| 21 | NIGHT OF JOY DELIGHT for Dion Dublin as he hits the last minute winner on his full debut for United . |
| 22 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 23 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 24 | As he delivered the first ball of his third over on that fateful sunny afternoon , his left knee split apart , fracturing in two . |
| 25 | One comes and stands next to Tony , watching as he secures the last bit to his boat . |
| 26 | He might even have been standing up as he tasted the first mouthful . |
| 27 | CARL LLEWELLYN ( Party Politics ) : ‘ As soon as he jumped the first fence I gained in confidence . |
| 28 | And , as he enters the last week of a career which spans more than 30 years , he knows he made the right choice . |
| 29 | No , the man said , sighing as he downed the last spread of goat 's cheese , he had not heard of the Borrowdale cuckoo . |
| 30 | Franco seemed to be riding on the crest of the wave as he entered the second decade of his rule — his " magistracy " as he called it in his own grandiloquent language . |