Example sentences of "as he [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |
| 2 | He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike , a thunderbolt maybe , as he queued for the body and blood . |
| 3 | She watched him as he queued at the counter . |
| 4 | Once again he was aware of Emily 's gaze as he marvelled at the confusion . |
| 5 | The joke was , as he knew from the records , that one of two of the most successful criminous families had moved from council flats into the new apartments on the proceeds of a life of profitable wrongdoing . |
| 6 | As soon as he come through the door I go for his jugular and take everything out on him and it , it 's not fair . |
| 7 | And er soon as he come in the house he he just walloped my mam for nothing . |
| 8 | And as he passed along the line , the men near him cried , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ afresh , and their comrades in the distance did the same . |
| 9 | The hijacker has told US officials he put the pistol under his hat and placed the hat on a table as he passed through a metal detector . |
| 10 | ‘ Georgina , ’ the Dean shouted as he passed through the hall . |
| 11 | They crossed over quietly enough , Athelstan smiling as he passed through the gateway at the far end on to Fish Street Hill . |
| 12 | He said how he had noticed the barometer as he passed through the sitting-room on his way to the kitchen where the meters were . |
| 13 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 14 | As he passed through the doorway , he heard his bus go grinding by the church and away up the hill . |
| 15 | As he passed through the light spilling into the inn-yard from one of the windows , a voice from a deep , shadowed doorway called , ‘ Hello , Seb . |
| 16 | As he passed across a cup of coffee , he asked Jim if it was ‘ going all right ’ . |
| 17 | Bragg asked as he passed over the lens . |
| 18 | Father Kipling stooped and said a few words to them as he passed into the sacristy to vest , and they turned round and looked at Clare . |
| 19 | As he passed by the city 's Queen 's Bridge a bullet ricocheted off a nearby wall as the Scottish internationalist dived for cover . |
| 20 | As he disrobed in the vestry , Quentin paused more than once , glancing at the closed door , as though expecting the boy to appear with his smile . |
| 21 | His arms and legs flew wide as he cartwheeled over the hood and fell in a motionless heap in the dusty road behind them . |
| 22 | Susan and I stood back as he splatted with a thump onto the steps . |
| 23 | As he observed in the report , if the Allies could ‘ plan for a better peace even while waging war , they will win together two victories which in truth are indivisible ’ . |
| 24 | Kaas leant forward and dragged Adam to his feet as he yelled for the guards to come in and help him . |
| 25 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 26 | Acads ' back play could have been more direct , but at least they contributed two cracking tries in the first half , the first by Simon Burns , with help from Ford Swanson , who then helped himself to five points as he finished of a Rowen Shepherd break . |
| 27 | Alan Model , 35 , made the illegal stop in a town centre as he popped into a shop . |
| 28 | This is partly because — as he realizes with a shock — he is remarkably well dressed . |
| 29 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 30 | He smiled as he advanced across the room . |