Example sentences of "as he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he had made a special point of emphasizing ; there was absolutely no room for friendship or personal favours in this business . |
| 2 | As soon as he had completed a few successful assignments , word was passed around and more business came his way . |
| 3 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 4 | As he had become an English citizen and relations between ourselves and the Soviet Union were , when he died , a great deal pricklier than they are today , this caused considerable suspicion and distrust among the fiscal authorities of both countries . |
| 5 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Bunny , pocketing the mat as he had done a million others , though the phone numbers on them were not usually trombonists . |
| 6 | He answered Andrus , as he had done the other Copts , with assurances and counsels of patience ; and with a touch of iron . |
| 7 | She was sitting beside Ken , who looked depressingly the same as he had done the previous night . |
| 8 | As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out . |
| 9 | Foucard would reject her fresh information as he had rejected the old . |
| 10 | By his early twenties , his musical curriculum vitae was already breathtaking , as he had recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Klemperer , the two Brahms showpieces with Barbirolli , and the complete cycle of Mozart concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra . |
| 11 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 12 | Mr M was no longer available as he had started a new contract to teach four days a week in the northern isles . |
| 13 | As he had watched the silent peaceful seascape , he had been amazed to see a large black dorsal fin lazily break the surface of the water . |
| 14 | Last summer one of my friends lent me a C.B. and an old aerial as he had bought a new set and some more of my friends had C.B.s . |
| 15 | ‘ His engineer would not take over as he had had a full day 's terror , so I volunteered to take over engine control in his place . |
| 16 | He had ordered the things that Scotland did best , just as he had chosen the best French courses in Agen . |
| 17 | When Bjorn Borg recently made his unsuccessful comeback , he attempted it with his faithful old wooden racket as he had found the new weaponry too difficult to control . |
| 18 | Her eyes filling with tears , she shrugged away as he went to put a gentle hand on her shoulder . |
| 19 | He waved his glass casually at Noolan , who smiled and waved back as he went to join a small group standing by the bar . |
| 20 | Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’ |
| 21 | She looked down , smiling , then nudged her horse forward , following him , watching as he began to climb the steep path that cut into the overhang above , his horse straining to make the gradient . |
| 22 | As he began pouring the fifth , the body stirred , and Litaw 's father said : ‘ That 's enough , I 'm being scalded . ’ |
| 23 | As he began to speak a young boy ran straight through a plate glass window behind us at the back of the church . |
| 24 | I asked as he began fixing the rear safety straps so that she would n't roll off the seat if he had to brake suddenly . |
| 25 | Rising star Andrew Thornton is within one of last season 's 10 winner total as he continues to set a blistering pace in the battle for the amateur riders ' championship . |
| 26 | What she could have done without when she went into her office was to answer the phone and hear Jimmy Webb ring in to ask if she could do without him as he 'd got an upset stomach . |
| 27 | But his face was drawn , the bronzed skin tight and flushed across his cheekbones as he struggled to control the powerful emotions that gripped him . |
| 28 | This has n't got to much to do with his gangling , freakishly elongated frame , which he 's used to evolve a unique form of comedic body language , flapping around on stage as he does like a dislocated stick insect , the missing link between Jerry Lewis and Pee Wee Herman . |
| 29 | IT IS hard to imagine that the writer of a book such as this , aiming as he does to address a mainstream readership , would , even two or three years ago , have felt the need seriously to discuss the role and future of the nation state in Europe . |
| 30 | Kevin looked at the policeman as he leaned to accept the proffered match which he was shielding with his fingers . |