Example sentences of "as he [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a conflict of conversational goals is the domain of pragmatics and will be dealt with later , but its seriousness is strongly implied by Anderson 's very flawed linguistic performance even as he resorts to a higher lexical register to excuse his actions . |
| 2 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 3 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 4 | She rushed after him , almost bumping into him as he came to an abrupt halt in the kitchen doorway . |
| 5 | There was something comfortingly familiar in this maddening ruin , this mythagoscape , generated by a burned airman many years in the past , created by him as he journeyed to the innermost and most ancient place of all . |
| 6 | Fonda studiously ignores the hairs as he drawls to an off-screen interrogator . |
| 7 | That evening Charlie hardly opened his mouth as he listened to the different accents of the men babbling around him . |
| 8 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 9 | As he clung to the bloodied body of his mother lying on Wimbledon Common , he cried : ‘ Mummy , get up , get up . ’ |
| 10 | As he tiptoed to the next flight he was distracted by a dreadful howling sound , worse than Plutarch at her most aggrieved . |
| 11 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 12 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 13 | Wexford 's voice grew hard as he warmed to a favourite theme . |
| 14 | Becker was back in his boom-boom form less than 24 hours after surviving a five-set first-round match as he cruised to a 6-2 , 6-2 , 6-4 win over Jakob Hlasek , of Switzerland , in one hour and 47 minutes . |
| 15 | Becker was back in his boom-boom form less than 24 hours after surviving a five-set first-round match as he cruised to a 6-2 , 6-2 , 6-4 win over Jakob Hlasek , of Switzerland , in one hour and 47 minutes . |
| 16 | Southern Memories won in the style of a well handicapped horse as he cruised to a three-length win from Special One at Windsor last week . |
| 17 | The inspector is required to give the employer the same information as he gives to the employed person . |
| 18 | PHIL SIMMONS smashed 17 boundaries as he raced to a brilliant 106 in only 150 minutes for the West Indies yesterday . |
| 19 | He asked the victim where he worked , then left him to expire as he raced to the drowned man 's place of employment . |
| 20 | Well , there is , according to Steve Smith , a viticulturist at New Zealand wine producer Villa Maria , as he explained to a shocked audience of Scottish trade guests at a tasting at Samuel Dow 's in Glasgow recently — based in a section of the dear , green place where sex , by tradition , is what coal comes in . |
| 21 | Perhaps there was some amount of crafty deception here , as he explained to the National Defence Association : ‘ By not insisting on military drill we catch a lot of boys who would otherwise have no idea of coming into the education that we are trying to give . ’ |
| 22 | He seemed relaxed , too , as he turned to the beaming waitress and ordered water and a carafe of wine . |
| 23 | MICHAEL STICH exploded a warning shot over his Wimbledon rivals yesterday as he stormed to a crushing victory in the Stella Artois Championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 24 | To demonstrate , he starts some 30 feet away from the actor , Ronald Nitschke , and moves in , hissing obscenities which rise in volume as he transfers to an invented , rasping , jabberwocky German . |
| 25 | Defending champion Huggett , the former Ryder Cup skipper , missed six putts of under five feet as he slipped to a 73 for a two round aggregate of 145 — three over par . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | STEFAN EDBERG 's Wimbledon preparations were shunted off the rails last night as he crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of world No 83 Jamie Morgan in the Stella Artois championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 28 | Duvall 's hands flew to his face as he collapsed to the tiled floor with a thick grunt . |
| 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 . |