Example sentences of "as he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holly saw his face as he passed behind him on the perimeter path , a face that was scraped with despair . |
| 2 | Perhaps , thought Robert , as he trudged after her towards the iron gates , this was a signal for their lovemaking to become more decorous . |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 'll take up teaching permanently , ’ she whispered to Bodie , who held her hand as he waited with her on the landing . |
| 4 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 5 | As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you married ? ’ he said at once , head turned toward the din from his workmen as he stepped past me over the rubble and put a key into the lock of the , I should have thought , not yet apt to be plundered building . |
| 7 | He laughed and kissed her again , and she could sense the relief in his words and in his eyes , as he looked at her with tenderness . |
| 8 | You know — ’ He pulled in his chin as he looked at her before continuing , ‘ It 's odd , but none of the other girls I 've brought to the house over the years have seemed to arouse your animosity . |
| 9 | Moran 's high-strung nervousness , which was usually concealed by slow , deliberate movements , was all on show as he looked about him like an animal in unknown territory and tore open the envelope . |
| 10 | Only now he was smiling as he looked around him at the chaos . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Tunney , ’ he gasped — mistaking me for someone else ? as he reached for me with a flailing hand . |
| 12 | At their abrupt entrance he rose to his feet , surprise and concern crossing his face as he glanced from her to fitzAlan . |
| 13 | She drew a breath as he gazed at it for an instant , watching its slow movements , the gentle opening of its tiny mouth as if expressing surprise . |
| 14 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 15 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 16 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 17 | The priest finally concludes that the sheepskin is properly his , as he paid for it in goods not services . |
| 18 | Her father had warned her it would be this way , his grey eyes unusually concerned as he sat with her in the club office . |
| 19 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |
| 20 | The point was — as he explained to me throughout that autumn and the winter that followed — to understand that habit was ritual , and ritual was habit . |
| 21 | Why does he refuse to meet any groups other than farmers , as he confirmed to me in the House on 17 February ? |
| 22 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 23 | Sometimes Gabriel 's ghost was so physical , so vivid , that Lee would almost cry out to Larry to warn him as he moved through it between the kitchen and the living-room or walked over it as Gabriel lay on the carpet in front of the television . |
| 24 | His pale eyes glittered spitefully as he smiled at her before walking back inside . |
| 25 | Wait ! ’ he laughed as he pushed past her into the kitchen and put the bags on the table . |
| 26 | ‘ There ai n't no list , lady , ’ he said as he pushed past her with the first of the consignment . |
| 27 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |