Example sentences of "as he was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's got a string of racehorses down south , ’ said Constance , ‘ and he did n't come by them as he was proceeding in a northerly direction on the evening of the twelfth in the course of his duty , I can tell you . ’ |
| 2 | As he was leaving for the flour-mill , she put up her mouth to be kissed . |
| 3 | It had been just as he was leaving on a Sunday evening . |
| 4 | On the east wall of the chancel is the inscription to Thomas Pelling , the ‘ flying man ’ from Lincolnshire , who fell to his death from the battlements when the rope went slack as he was descending from the church tower to the Old Star inn in April 1733 . |
| 5 | JTR wrote that as he was sailing through the Kyles of Bute on the solid Iona . |
| 6 | Mr Gay pulled a knife from his waistband , but was so drunk he dropped it and Cameron picked it up and fought back as he was beaten with a baton . |
| 7 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 8 | I shall never forget Jordi 's face , his rueful smile , his fatalistic shrug as he was pushed into the car . |
| 9 | In a fit of temper he shot up past the runner , and just as he was reaching for a ledge above , the turf he was standing on performed its Velcro imitation and propelled the stunned climber into the air . |
| 10 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 11 | As he was escaping from the room with a sort of lurking horror , the servant girl called after him . |
| 12 | By the time he reached the high moor , visibility was restricted by a swirling mass as he was exposed to the full force of the blizzard . |
| 13 | This allowed Innocent in 1199 to intervene , as he was asked for a dispensation . |
| 14 | As soon as he was seated at the table she poured and handed wine , and he marked the breadth and strength of the shapely hand that offered the cup , and realised suddenly , noting the blue cloth sleeve of her gown , that she had already shed her mourning . |
| 15 | His eloquence was somewhat impaired by the presence on the bed of the current mistress , the Roman Catholic Duchess of Portsmouth , but eventually he succeeded in having her removed and in persuading the King to send for the Queen to seek her forgiveness for the wrongs he had done her ; the King however kept putting off the administration of the Holy Sacrament , and Ken was removed from the room in Charles 's last hours as he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a priest smuggled into the palace by his brother and successor , James II . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm very touched , if I might say so , ’ the prince said , as he was cheered by a 10,000-strong audience . |
| 17 | Ricky was not long out of the navy , training as a body builder , doing carpentry , and also working on the door at clubs , as he was saving for a motor bike which Minton helped him to buy . |
| 18 | AN 84-year-old man collapsed in court with a suspected heart attack yesterday as he was charged with the ‘ mercy ’ killing of a 94year-old widow . |
| 19 | Bodie received the message about the sneaky departure of Chrissie and the two children as he was jogging round the block , just after six in the morning . |
| 20 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 21 | The patient would have to have an almost normal trunk , without any associated reactions or increased spasticity as he was placed in the prone position on the plinth . |
| 22 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
| 23 | And in 1984 , he chipped a thigh bone as he was dragged along the course after his saddle slipped . |
| 24 | But the moment Renaud reached the Saracen lines , he was put into irons ; the Christian defenders then watched in horror as he was dragged before the castle and tortured in front of them . |
| 25 | It seems his time in Havana was blissfully productive , able as he was to draw from a readily available wealth of historical data concerning the slave trade . |
| 26 | But as he was signing on the dotted line … |
| 27 | She warmed yesterdays bread and cooked three eggs and laid a tray and took the lot upstairs , meaning to return with coals for Mr Landor 's fire as soon as he was placated with the food . |
| 28 | Out of the blue he had got a job as a mail boy in the MGM studios at thirty dollars a week , twice as much as he was paid in the toy store . |
| 29 | The fifteenth-century Germans were themselves building on earlier traditions of Germania to create , despite appalling practical difficulties , the idea of the deutscher Nation , presided over by the Holy Roman Emperor — Teutscher Kaiser , as he was described by the chronicler Hartmann Schedel in 1492 . |
| 30 | As my hon. Friend the Member for , Garscadden said earlier this afternoon , the Secretary of State has to rely on his Minister — the AA man , as he was described in the Financial Times . |