Example sentences of "as he [verb] [prep] [art] [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 Ian McCloud , of Unicef , celebrated as he saw off the first UN convoy of food in weeks .
6 They were heavy , as he knew from the numbing pain in his shin .
7 As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it .
8 Expert in controlling his tone , he scarcely hesitated as he passed over the customary nickname , for Hector Luath would be swift no longer .
9 As he passed round the far side of Daisy , Gareth could feel the marshy ground clinging with each stride .
10 His slender figure was plunged first into light then into shadow as he passed before the slitted windows .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The Cheltenham course was one he completed to the College 's satisfaction , and as he left as a qualified master his first thought was to return home to North London , at least for the time being .
14 Such a conflict of conversational goals is the domain of pragmatics and will be dealt with later , but its seriousness is strongly implied by Anderson 's very flawed linguistic performance even as he resorts to a higher lexical register to excuse his actions .
15 ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club .
16 Lester Piggott as he recovered from a racing fall .
17 It was just too easy , he ruminated , as he bit into a huge hamburger at the drive-in .
18 He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook .
19 " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him .
20 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 .
21 He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well .
22 I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Consequently , he endured the pain as he went through a few simple movements .
26 Then the hard body overpowered her completely , thrusting into her , hands biting into her hips as she sprawled beneath him , her mouth slack and her eyes dazed , and as he looked down and saw the expression on her face he began to groan louder with pleasure , whispering incoherent words in a ragged , dehumanised voice , devastating her with the absolute possession he took , sliding his hands under her rear , his face contorting barbarically as he went into a violent climax in a series of deep , fast thrusts and jerked against her with a fierce cry , his body shaking as with the spontaneous release of an electric current .
27 ‘ One moment , ’ Frau Nordern said , placing a well aimed dart between the Sergeant 's broad , grey-clad shoulders as he went into an inner office .
28 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 .
29 Dr Nolan looked deadbeat as he came into the little bedroom at Milltown .
30 As he came off the 13th green he was six under fours with five holes to play and Patrick 's prospects of collecting had improved .
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