Example sentences of "as he [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |
| 2 | The hijacker has told US officials he put the pistol under his hat and placed the hat on a table as he passed through a metal detector . |
| 3 | As he passed across a cup of coffee , he asked Jim if it was ‘ going all right ’ . |
| 4 | Susan and I stood back as he splatted with a thump onto the steps . |
| 5 | Acads ' back play could have been more direct , but at least they contributed two cracking tries in the first half , the first by Simon Burns , with help from Ford Swanson , who then helped himself to five points as he finished of a Rowen Shepherd break . |
| 6 | Alan Model , 35 , made the illegal stop in a town centre as he popped into a shop . |
| 7 | This is partly because — as he realizes with a shock — he is remarkably well dressed . |
| 8 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 9 | The main objection came from John Lovell one day when he met his brother-in-law by chance , as he returned from a visit to the Cartwrights , the wardens at the new homes . |
| 10 | Panic announced as he returned from a visit to Albania on Aug. 10 that the state of emergency in Serbia 's province of Kosovo was to be lifted . |
| 11 | He was said to be in a comfortable condition today , as he recovered in a hospital burns unit . |
| 12 | One man was shot four times in the legs as he went for a walk . |
| 13 | His motion dashed the tears from his eyes , and as he came to a halt he saw the visitor plainly . |
| 14 | ‘ Almost , ’ his voice reasoned as he came to a halt , shaking her slightly as he turned her to face him . |
| 15 | Finally , a shopkeeper dialled 999 as he fell into a coma by the road . |
| 16 | As he wrote to a friend : |
| 17 | On Christmas Eve 1827 he arrived at Abbotsford which he had left six months before , as he wrote in a letter , ‘ in doubt whether I should fly my country and become avowedly bankrupt and surrender my library and household furniture with the life-rent of my estate for sale . ’ |
| 18 | You must learn to have a little more confidence in your … ’ he hesitated , his firmly-moulded lips slightly parted as he searched for a word ‘ … desirability . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In the cupboard on the right , ’ said Penry curtly as he searched through a drawer . |
| 20 | As he waits at a stop-light somewhere out beyond the freightyards he drums his fingers on the steering wheel and gazes in front of him , thinking . |
| 21 | It was as if the dominance of his spirit had conquered the physical results of lack of sleep , lending him a new vitality which arced across the distance between them , charging her own weakened batteries , as he responded to a challenge which had been originally hers . |
| 22 | Even as he lifted from a cupboard the freshly ironed shirts , about which he was so particular , he was already mentally back in England . |
| 23 | His fingers were tobacco-stained as he fiddled with a biro . |
| 24 | Glover was making his way back from the start , where he had coaxed the temperamental Rambo 's Hall into his stall , and his swelling excitement as he listened to a radio commentary was confined in a swaying Land Rover . |
| 25 | He was held yesterday as he drove to a villa in Longara , northern Italy . |
| 26 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 27 | As he said in a radio broadcast in 1946 , the Criterion in later years " tended to reflect a particular point of view rather than to illustrate a variety of views on that plane . " |
| 28 | The young midfielder was an unknown Chelsea reserve when a gang set upon him as he played in a park five-a-side in West London last summer . |
| 29 | In a large field he did not have the clearest of runs as he challenged as a result of which he finished fast but too late having to settle for fourth place to the Ebor winner Quick Ransom . |
| 30 | Oh , I have seen that boy 's face full of fear as he stares through a window at me passing in a swirl of snow . |