Example sentences of "as his [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He wrestled to control himself , but the faint hope of convincing Mr Graham propelled the words irrepressibly from his lips : ‘ Actually , ’ he said as his boss opened the door , ‘ our banks have done rather well out of the debt crisis … ’ |
| 2 | Will he be as happy as his stepmother to indulge the coach parties , the corporate guests , the Japanese tourists with whom Raine and her husband spent so much time ? |
| 3 | The van gave an erratic burst of speed as his foot prodded the accelerator . |
| 4 | Galvone stood beside him as his chief pushed the newspaper aside . |
| 5 | As his maturity increases the style moves up to the Hi R/Hi T quarter ; the leader ‘ sells ’ to the follower decisions already made . |
| 6 | As his cab departed the gates of Roedean , a handful of girls , including Amanda , raised a ragged cheer . |
| 7 | Shadow of what ? wrote Goldberg in the margin , cursing under his breath as his elbow dislodged the pile of typewritten sheets stacked on the desk beside the typewriter , tapping them back to neatness , wiping his brow with his sleeve , typing on . |
| 8 | There was a thump as his shopping hit the floor . |
| 9 | For , as his master opened the kitchen door , there , in eager anticipation , stood Azor . |
| 10 | Pliny intended to try and evacuate people living on the coast immediately beneath the volcano , in the area which is now Torre del Greco , but as his galley approached the coast it was showered with hot ashes and sizeable lumps of pumice from the volcano . |
| 11 | As his diocese included the Isle of Wright , The Rev. Pearce would often have occasion to hold signed conversations with Queen Victoria who was acquainted with some deaf people near her favourite retreat at Osborne . |
| 12 | He could remember a time when he had fallen asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow , and when he had always had a healthy appetite . |
| 13 | He then fainted and there was a loud bang as his head hit the floor . |
| 14 | Within a minute of coming on , substitute Tony O'Donovan put Didcot right back in to the game and then Paul Spittle was so unlucky not to level the scores as his shot hit the post . |
| 15 | As his biographer develops the theme of his travels , it becomes difficult to tell whether Godric is more of a merchant or a pilgrim : we find him at Jerusalem , at Compostela and at Rome . |
| 16 | He leaned closer to the window , but saw even less as his breath fogged the glass . |
| 17 | The buyer 's right to treat the contract as repudiated arises in the same circumstances as his right to reject the goods , i. e. if the seller commits a breach of condition or a breach of warranty which deprives the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract ( see paragraph 7–04 , above ) . |
| 18 | The report , by Marketing Magazine , found 79 per cent of viewers able to link Andrex with the child stranded as his pet steals the toilet roll . |
| 19 | He seemed to regard it as his duty to abuse the Jews on behalf of French society in general and , in particular , for all that was grievous and unfair in his own life . |
| 20 | ( As his speech progresses the Amero-West Indian is dropped and a Scottish hectoring sharpness enters the vowels and consonants . ) |
| 21 | He felt queasy as his hand touched the cadaver 's bloated stomach and noted that the dead man 's legs were soaking wet . |
| 22 | None but he would have noticed the gleam of gold and diamonds — the ring on the dead man 's finger as his hand broke the surface . |
| 23 | A small boy called Patrick , watching with interest as his great-aunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife . |
| 24 | ‘ Ow ! ’ cried Zach as his knee hit the step ladder . |
| 25 | She blushed furiously , then moaned as his finger found the centre of one breast and a million sparks flew to every corner of her body . |