Example sentences of "as he [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 2 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 3 | There was something comfortingly familiar in this maddening ruin , this mythagoscape , generated by a burned airman many years in the past , created by him as he journeyed to the innermost and most ancient place of all . |
| 4 | That evening Charlie hardly opened his mouth as he listened to the different accents of the men babbling around him . |
| 5 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 6 | As he clung to the bloodied body of his mother lying on Wimbledon Common , he cried : ‘ Mummy , get up , get up . ’ |
| 7 | As he tiptoed to the next flight he was distracted by a dreadful howling sound , worse than Plutarch at her most aggrieved . |
| 8 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 9 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 10 | The inspector is required to give the employer the same information as he gives to the employed person . |
| 11 | He asked the victim where he worked , then left him to expire as he raced to the drowned man 's place of employment . |
| 12 | Perhaps there was some amount of crafty deception here , as he explained to the National Defence Association : ‘ By not insisting on military drill we catch a lot of boys who would otherwise have no idea of coming into the education that we are trying to give . ’ |
| 13 | He seemed relaxed , too , as he turned to the beaming waitress and ordered water and a carafe of wine . |
| 14 | This signals clearly that the dynamic of singular love is operative when everyday reality is transfigured from speech to song and the contemplative feels the ordinary demands of the self stilled as he awakes to the wider reality : " may say : " " I slepe and my hert wakes " " " ( 8.106.51 – 2 ) . |
| 15 | Duvall 's hands flew to his face as he collapsed to the tiled floor with a thick grunt . |
| 16 | remember that the horse is perhaps feeling a little weary and that his concentration may wander as he returns to the welcome sight of home . |