Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] as [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one small question nagging him which he asked just as Samantha Lightbody was ringing off . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you gone speechless on me again ? ’ he murmured tauntingly as Cavell Fielding came forward from the restaurant 's extravagantly decorative entrance opposite them , a slight widening of her sapphire eyes the only surprise she evinced at seeing them together . |
| 3 | He swallowed deeply as Michael Ryan took his hand and shook it , the animal strength of the handshake reminding him acutely of exactly what he had done . |
| 4 | He broke off as Jim Miller let go a Indian whoop of relief and delighted grins spread across the faces of everyone in the group . |
| 5 | He broke off as Mrs Westaway came in with the cowslip wine and a large slice of seed cake . |
| 6 | He watched grimly as Mike Laister , easily the best man with any drinks company , grasped the point . |
| 7 | In November 1989 he took over as CDU leader [ see p. 37024 ] and then in February 1990 replaced Wolfgang Schnur as the leading Alliance for Germany candidate in the general election [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 8 | Thirty-four years later , Diana Rigg used garlic to curtail her love scenes with George Lazenby when he took over as James Bond for his only screen appearance as 007 in On Her Majesty 's Secret Service in 1969 . |
| 9 | He listened intently as Helen Crummy , the founder of the Craigmillar Festival Society , told him that it was a group of mothers — determined to do something for their families because of their frustration at a lack of educational , cultural and employment opportunities — which had led to the start of the organisation in 1962 . |
| 10 | He ended up as Prince Bishop of Durham in 1752 where his saintliness ( he was nicknamed ‘ The Beauty of Holiness ’ ) made him a rare figure amongst the lax Georgian episcopate , concerned largely as it was with political intrigue and careerism . |