Example sentences of "[adv] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 2 | Battler looked at him eagerly as he came back into the room . |
| 3 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 4 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |
| 5 | Kirov 's anger dissipated somewhat as he played the recording over a couple of times . |
| 6 | Down the curved cliff of the dried-up waterfall he climbed : ‘ But , of course , he dirtied everything terribly as he went . |
| 7 | Harry brooded , frowning terribly as he toyed with his knife . |
| 8 | Her hands slid up his chest , her fingers uncurling against the hard wall of muscle , tracing every strong lean line until they brushed against the warm skin of his throat , then slid on to draw his head back down while she kissed him just as tenderly , just as achingly as he had kissed her . |
| 9 | At times he would brood gloomily as he thought of the future course of the Reformation . |
| 10 | He drew off some fluid and relieved the pressure , then went back to the office , where he shook his head gloomily as he pored over the report that had come back with her from Seapark . |
| 11 | ‘ No … ’ she whispered tremulously as he marched across the sand towards the dark lawns leading up to the cottage . |
| 12 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 13 | Then , just as suddenly as he had appeared , the man turned and ran off . |
| 14 | He snapped it in two — gave me a leer — and was gone , as suddenly as he had arrived . |
| 15 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |
| 16 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |
| 17 | Then , just as suddenly as he had stopped , the male was off again , perking up his feathers and hopping after his mate with a meaningful glint in his beady eyes . |
| 18 | She felt Adam 's ribs swell suddenly as he took in a huge breath ; he thrust her away from him , seized hold of the roof slab as if to pull it down on top of them ; and screamed . |
| 19 | Grout turned away , straightened his back and brought his head up , ignoring Ashton pointedly as he walked proudly away . |
| 20 | Much as he desired to make cuts , Eisenhower in the end decided not to risk a general crisis in the Atlantic alliance by precipitate unilateral action . |
| 21 | He straightened , whirling round on her suddenly , much as he had turned on Victor Nicholson all those years ago . |
| 22 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |
| 23 | He continued to practise photography as a hobby until 1887 , taking an ‘ unalloyed enjoyment of the art ’ , much as he had done with his drawing and engraving . |
| 24 | He steered his way round these words much as he had negotiated the deck . |
| 25 | Much as he had done seven times before . |
| 26 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 27 | Much as he wished that Aunt Tossie might keep her mind on the Form Book , where their interests in beating the Handicapper ran together , he had nevertheless acceded to her insistence on a party , a small house party , for Nicandra 's first real ball . |
| 28 | Much as he loved Judd , he was unable to understand the boy 's passion for mechanical objects like aeroplanes in preference to living creatures like horses ; nor see how Judd could possibly justify equating the two as he did . |
| 29 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 30 | Much as he wanted to , and much as he had been moved by her tears , he could not find it in him to forgive her . |