Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes skimmed her face , his expression unreadable , as he seated himself in the armchair opposite her . |
| 2 | She had changed her clothes — as he had himself in a sprint through his hotel — to a pale coffee-cream skirt and russet blouse under a hip-length waterproof jacket . |
| 3 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 4 | The florist had removed his big green apron but the Brigadier had to force him to take off his trilby as he brought him in the door , muttering under his breath , ‘ This is a State office , you know very well … ’ |
| 5 | As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 7 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 8 | Actually , thought Henry , as he checked himself in the mirror , no one , not even the police , would be stupid enough to imagine that Elinor could be the victim of a crime passionnel . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a terrible man — ’ she managed to croak as he touched her in a way that transported her back at once to the heaven of the previous night . |
| 10 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 11 | ' ’ Where God erecteth his church , the devil in the same churchyard will house his chapel ’ , ’ he quoted , as he joined her in the limo . |
| 12 | La democrasserie , as he called it in a letter to Taine . |
| 13 | ‘ In that case , ’ Maggie said happily , snuggling against him as he put her in the car and came to sit beside her , ‘ I wo n't argue . ’ |
| 14 | Kahn reckoned that a plan either to make them sell their shares or to force a swap of the shares for shares in a newly-formed corporation called Velcro Reorganisation NV was ‘ in effect Hobson 's choice , ’ as he put it in an affidavit filed with a New York Federal district court . |
| 15 | He looked , he thought as he examined himself in the mirror , more than usually hideous . |
| 16 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 17 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 18 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 19 | ‘ Right , ’ he said as he settled himself in the chair . |
| 20 | Fernando smiled thinly as he cocooned her in a fluffy towel and rubbed her back to dry her . |
| 21 | ‘ And you are … ? ’ he asked Ashley as he welcomed her in the hallway . |