Example sentences of "as he [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're gon na play some DEVIL SATAN WOCK AND WOLL MUSIC ! ! ! ’ announces Fabulous ' strangely Mr Bean-like guitarist to the severe bemusement of a hall full of Farm fans , as he launches into the first of two bloody many dismal three-chord punk thrashes , and on struts Simon Dudfield , oozing ugliness from every pore . |
| 3 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |
| 4 | Paul Gascoigne turns in another dazzling performance , this time as Santa Claus , as he gets into the festive spirit to wish all TODAY readers a very merry Christmas . |
| 5 | The Pitman yard , which has done so well in this race — one winner , a second and two thirds since 1983 — believe he will adapt to the unique Aintree fences , and as long as he copes with the first few , they feel he must go close . |
| 6 | As he says in the following extract : |
| 7 | Tillyard engages with the mid-twentieth century as he does with the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 8 | These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) . |
| 9 | As he disappears through the front door so the neat brown head and the wild red one turn . |
| 10 | As he reaches between the worn rails towards |
| 11 | The inspector is required to give the employer the same information as he gives to the employed person . |
| 12 | They 're simply irresistible , says Graham Rice , as he looks at the best types to grow |
| 13 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 14 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 15 | Hankin could bring in another new face as he prepares for the 15-match survival fight . |
| 16 | Sheffield Wednesday 's John Harkes is one of five players with European clubs wanted by United States coach Bora Milutinovic as he prepares for the friendly match against Ireland in Dublin on April 29 . |
| 17 | All the testing at the Yamaha camp in Spain and in Australia , all the preparation , and all the homework are behind him now , and what he has left is the adrenalin pumping in his veins as he prepares for the biggest day of his sporting life . |
| 18 | the economic dialectic is never active in the pure state ; in History , these instances , the superstructures , etc. — are never seen to step respectfully aside when their work is done or , when the Time comes , as his pure phenomena , to scatter before His Majesty the Economy as he strides along the royal road of the Dialectic . |
| 19 | the economic dialectic is never active in the pure state ; in History , these instances , the superstructures , etc. — are never seen to step respectfully aside when their work is done or , when the Time comes , as his pure phenomena , to scatter before His Majesty the Economy as he strides along the royal road of the Dialectic . |
| 20 | They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot . |
| 21 | In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning . |
| 22 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |
| 23 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 24 | This signals clearly that the dynamic of singular love is operative when everyday reality is transfigured from speech to song and the contemplative feels the ordinary demands of the self stilled as he awakes to the wider reality : " may say : " " I slepe and my hert wakes " " " ( 8.106.51 – 2 ) . |
| 25 | That magnate looks quite diminished as he crouches in the forward seat with his cloak wrapped awkwardly about him ; but how gloriously his underling has been transformed . |
| 26 | His disciples coalesce around him as he lurches towards the inevitable . |
| 27 | Furthermore he has a particular site in mind , as he reveals in the next round of the negotiations . |
| 28 | But , an hour later , the models tearing at his clothes as he lies in the king-size bed , he seems resigned to the proceedings . |
| 29 | remember that the horse is perhaps feeling a little weary and that his concentration may wander as he returns to the welcome sight of home . |
| 30 | Shear delight : Crumlin YFC member Gary Davidson wastes no time as he competes in the annual sheep shearing contest organised by Holestone and Straid YFC at the Ballyclare May Fair . |