Example sentences of "as he [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That evening Charlie hardly opened his mouth as he listened to the different accents of the men babbling around him . |
| 5 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 6 | As he clung to the bloodied body of his mother lying on Wimbledon Common , he cried : ‘ Mummy , get up , get up . ’ |
| 7 | As he tiptoed to the next flight he was distracted by a dreadful howling sound , worse than Plutarch at her most aggrieved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 10 | He asked the victim where he worked , then left him to expire as he raced to the drowned man 's place of employment . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He seemed relaxed , too , as he turned to the beaming waitress and ordered water and a carafe of wine . |
| 13 | Duvall 's hands flew to his face as he collapsed to the tiled floor with a thick grunt . |