Example sentences of "as he [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him as he queued at the counter . |
| 2 | Once again he was aware of Emily 's gaze as he marvelled at the confusion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 6 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ the man replied between gasps as he heaved at the oars , ‘ there is something I can tell you . ’ |
| 8 | As he said at the time : ‘ I 've never been seen naked in any bed , never . |
| 9 | SHORTLY after 9am yesterday , the owner of an ageing Lada saloon desperately tried to restart his stalled car as he waited at the lights which now control the exit from the M8 at the Newbridge roundabout on the western approaches to Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Her hand trembled slightly as she place it on her father 's arm , but when she heard the traditional strains of music announcing her arrival , and saw Silas looking extremely handsome as he waited at the end of the aisle , her nervousness fled . |
| 11 | As he noted at the time , new houses intended for single families were subdivided into tenements on their first letting , for the very poor simply could not afford to pay their landlords a realistic return on their investment . |
| 12 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 13 | Yanto felt a tinge of sadness as he looked at the sign . |
| 14 | Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind . |
| 15 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 16 | The offices faced out on to the wolf enclosure and as he looked at the pack huddled by the iron fence in the snow he thought how right they looked for once . |
| 17 | Three rows in front of Aldrich , on his left-hand side as he looked at the backs of their heads , sat Howard and Shirley Brown . |
| 18 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |
| 19 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |
| 20 | He tilted his head as he paused at the door . |
| 21 | As he paused at the exit she then ran to the front of the car and stretched her arms across its bonnet . |
| 22 | Duncan lay next to her , his arm behind her head as he stared at the ceiling . |
| 23 | He was walking out of the tower when he glanced up , stopped , froze as he stared at the horror above his head . |
| 24 | His brain seemed to be malfunctioning — his emotions felt like torn rags as he stared at the theatre programme that sat on top of his desk . |
| 25 | ‘ Where 've you jokers been ? ’ asked one of them , as he stared at the bits of tree hanging off us . |
| 26 | The Prince chewed at a fingernail as he stared at the map . |
| 27 | Slowly he climbed out of the van , shaking his head as he stared at the bridge . |
| 28 | As he stared at the torment , fury , and despair in her face , he knew that Clare would not forgive him . |
| 29 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |
| 30 | His voice was coloured with surprise as he gazed at the newcomer . |