Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tommy bolted off like a greyhound released from the slips , and the two other men watched as he scampered across the open ground , until some twenty seconds later he reached the safety of the trees . |
| 32 | As he asked for the latest report , Marshka thought about the policeman and the Englishman . |
| 33 | He paused as he tugged off the filthy tarpaulin . |
| 34 | That evening Charlie hardly opened his mouth as he listened to the different accents of the men babbling around him . |
| 35 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 36 | They watched as he ran into the black mouth of the tunnel . |
| 37 | We pushed our way through the throng and stood before the fellow as he slouched over the grease-stained table . |
| 38 | As he clung to the bloodied body of his mother lying on Wimbledon Common , he cried : ‘ Mummy , get up , get up . ’ |
| 39 | As he leaped for the null-grav shaft , he caught sight of the prisoner thrashing through the air two storeys above . |
| 40 | As he drove up the main street and turned out of the town at the top , Sarah looked round her with pleasure and George studied her surreptitiously as she did so . |
| 41 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 42 | As he drove along the broad road leading back into the town Richard said idly , ‘ Are you in love with Luke , by any chance ? ’ |
| 43 | Amongst the victims of the urban campaign was Col. Saturnino Dumlao , a senior intelligent agent , who was ambushed as he drove through the southern Manila suburb of Paranaque on June 11 , 1990 . |
| 44 | As he said in The Favourite Game : ‘ Seven to 11 is a huge chunk of life , full of dulling and forgetting , ’ though perhaps some of the ‘ forgetting ’ was deliberate . |
| 45 | At times he would brood gloomily as he thought of the future course of the Reformation . |
| 46 | Afterwards , they lay silently together and as he thought of the recent conversation with Giancarlo he slowly ran his finger along her hip-bone and down towards her inner thigh . |
| 47 | He was breathing quickly , his nostrils pinching in as he thought of the coming confrontation with his wife . |
| 48 | He smiled as he thought about the previous night . |
| 49 | Now his mouth was stretched in a mad parody of a cartoon character 's grin — lips wide , teeth clamped — as he fought against the terrible urge to breathe . |
| 50 | I wo n't forget Linford Christie 's eyeballs — bulging , fixed and apparently unseeing as he burst from the 100 metres pack . |
| 51 | A word of warning : please consult your vet as to exactly what quantity of Eukanuba you should give your Rottweiler each day — it is very easy to put ON weight with Eukanuba if you are n't careful — and the instructions on the bag do suggest you allow your dog to take as much as he wished during the 24-hour period . |
| 52 | Hobhouse ‘ presented a kind of fusion of Spencer and Green ’ insofar as he believed in the scientific importance of the idea of evolution but felt that the most highly evolved society is one ‘ in which the efforts of its members are most completely coordinated to common ends , in which discord is most fully subdued to harmony . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ I have a sweet tooth , ’ he said blandly as he disposed of the fourth . |
| 54 | As he tiptoed to the next flight he was distracted by a dreadful howling sound , worse than Plutarch at her most aggrieved . |
| 55 | As he tiptoed past the open bathroom door she called . |
| 56 | Poor old devil , thought Amiss , as he fussed around the old man , removing dish-covers , undoing the napkin , helping him settle himself upright . |
| 57 | As he dropped towards the startled , dodging man beneath him , the Prophet realised his mistake . |
| 58 | He stumbled then fell on to the track , his scream silenced abruptly as he disappeared beneath the screeching wheels . |
| 59 | As he checked into the first-class cabin of the big liner , he had never , he thought , felt happier in his life . |
| 60 | 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 . |