Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike , a thunderbolt maybe , as he queued for the body and blood . |
| 2 | She watched him as he queued at the counter . |
| 3 | Once again he was aware of Emily 's gaze as he marvelled at the confusion . |
| 4 | The joke was , as he knew from the records , that one of two of the most successful criminous families had moved from council flats into the new apartments on the proceeds of a life of profitable wrongdoing . |
| 5 | And as he passed along the line , the men near him cried , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ afresh , and their comrades in the distance did the same . |
| 6 | ‘ Georgina , ’ the Dean shouted as he passed through the hall . |
| 7 | They crossed over quietly enough , Athelstan smiling as he passed through the gateway at the far end on to Fish Street Hill . |
| 8 | He said how he had noticed the barometer as he passed through the sitting-room on his way to the kitchen where the meters were . |
| 9 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 10 | As he passed through the doorway , he heard his bus go grinding by the church and away up the hill . |
| 11 | As he passed through the light spilling into the inn-yard from one of the windows , a voice from a deep , shadowed doorway called , ‘ Hello , Seb . |
| 12 | Bragg asked as he passed over the lens . |
| 13 | Father Kipling stooped and said a few words to them as he passed into the sacristy to vest , and they turned round and looked at Clare . |
| 14 | As he passed by the city 's Queen 's Bridge a bullet ricocheted off a nearby wall as the Scottish internationalist dived for cover . |
| 15 | As he disrobed in the vestry , Quentin paused more than once , glancing at the closed door , as though expecting the boy to appear with his smile . |
| 16 | His arms and legs flew wide as he cartwheeled over the hood and fell in a motionless heap in the dusty road behind them . |
| 17 | As he observed in the report , if the Allies could ‘ plan for a better peace even while waging war , they will win together two victories which in truth are indivisible ’ . |
| 18 | Kaas leant forward and dragged Adam to his feet as he yelled for the guards to come in and help him . |
| 19 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 20 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 21 | He smiled as he advanced across the room . |
| 22 | There was frost on his hair , on the fur of his hood , but soon , as he hacked at the tree , his skin began to glow and a fine , warm moisture gleamed on his face . |
| 23 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 24 | Atef Bseisou , the director of external security for the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , was killed as he returned to the Hotel Meridien in Montparnasse , Paris , in the early hours of June 8 . |
| 25 | The colour of his neck faded as he returned to the table with the drinks . |
| 26 | Lord John smiled winningly as he returned to the table . |
| 27 | Mariana looked up as he returned to the living-room . |
| 28 | ‘ What did you tell Marianne you were doing tonight ? ’ she asked as he returned with the drinks . |
| 29 | He became a little anxious , and , as he returned across the field with Cowslip , did his best to explain something of Fiver 's peculiar temperament . |
| 30 | She glanced up at Doyle as he returned behind the bar . |