Example sentences of "as he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leeds boss pointed the midfielder back on and had to be restrained by reserve official Brian Hill as he furiously remonstrated with referee Joe Worrall . |
| 2 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 3 | As he finally demonstrated over Cuba , he did not think Communist domination was worth the ruin of civilization . |
| 4 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 5 | It was not the remark Mr Crumwallis had been expecting , but he perked up , as he frequently did in interviews with parents , when an opportunity for fraudulent self-congratulation presented itself . |
| 6 | In fact , as he later admitted in court , he had been represented by a lawyer from Newcastle at the time of signing to Virgin : not a music-business lawyer , it was true , but a lawyer none the less . |
| 7 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 8 | It captured his imagination , as he later showed in Marmion ; and that imagination was further fed by books in the farmhouse window seat and by the Border tales his aunt and grandmother told him . |
| 9 | It had been about Hegel , the German idealist dead within recent memory , and Paul tried to assemble his thoughts on the matter as he again walked up Bath Street Lane . |
| 10 | It was Dorothy who provided the watchful , loving companionship which , as he famously acknowledged in Book X of The Prelude , helped a new sense of self to be resolved from his doubts and confusions : |
| 11 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 12 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 13 | Yet the list of play-off records he set — .650 batting average , 13 hits , 24 total bases — fails to convey the full magnitude of his achievement , coming in as he often did at moments of unbelievable pressure , and usually delivering the vital hit . |
| 14 | Orrin Tunstall reverted to being a Westerner , as he often did in moments of crisis . |
| 15 | He was crying with delight , as he often did in anticipation , when his engine started to cough , and he sailed slap into a rocky cascade . |
| 16 | Mr Sowerberry , the undertaker in Charles Dickens 's Oliver Twist , was in the middle of the funeral hierarchy , but towards the bottom end as he only catered for parish funerals — that is to say those from the workhouse or those receiving outdoor relief . |
| 17 | As he quickly washed off Friday night 's mud , he made a mental note not to take it out on the machine next time he got drunk . |
| 18 | ‘ Hello my babee , ’ he chirped , as he almost walked into Yanto . |
| 19 | She resented the way in which he seemed to be taking over , insinuating himself into the family as cunningly as he once had in Oxford . |
| 20 | Instead of going to the Club as he usually did for lunch , Owen went to Zeinab 's apartment . |
| 21 | He found himself wishing he was at home again , at Polly 's home , and could creep stealthily into the twins ' room and sit there as he sometimes had at night , on the floor among their discarded toys and cuddly animals , with his back to the wall , listening to the sound of their breathing . |
| 22 | Dutchman Marcel Albers , who won the first race at Donington , compatriot Oswaldo Negri and Belgian Mikke Van Hool were all slightly quicker in testing during the week so de Ferran will need to be at peak to clinch top spot , as he twice did for Edenbridge Racing last year . |