Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as he " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 32 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 33 | He 'd do the parties now and then as he used to . |
| 34 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 35 | Strange 's outburst was directed at a cameraman who clicked as he addressed the ball , and then as he reached the top of the backswing . |
| 36 | It had always been a moment of pure magic to him in the theatre , the consciousness of the huge rustling animal behind him , and the hush as the house lights went down , the pause of utter stillness , silence , and then as he brought his baton down , the incredible surge of excitement as music smashed the silence , created instantly the illusion of that otherworld that did n't really exist . |
| 37 | Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car . |
| 38 | The singer loosened the collar of his shirt and let his voice flow out as turbulently and tranquilly as he desired . |
| 39 | for one pound and unfortunately as he the option of the contract and on a number of occasions question whether he should exercise the option . |
| 40 | The light in the pale grey eyes was very bright and hard as he watched her expression . |
| 41 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 42 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 43 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 44 | I knew Leslie 's fastidiousness in sexual matters too well to take the poem literally , but only as he intended that I should : that though he had met many other girls on his leaves in Alexandria and Cairo , he still cared only for me . |
| 45 | He heard the door close behind him , but just as he reached the gate it was hurriedly opened again and a voice called , ‘ Just a moment ! |
| 46 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 47 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 48 | But just as he put the rope over his head , he screamed in terror and threw his arms above his head . |
| 49 | He 'd bent to kiss the girl , warmly , said a laughing farewell , and weaved his way across to her through the crowd , his eyes faintly amused but cool as he assessed her contortions with the unruly material . |
| 50 | But even as he did so , he felt that the sentence , having been written , still existed on some other page . |
| 51 | In the face of this combined attack , Jeremy fled , but even as he ran determined to come again as soon as things at Dotty 's had returned once more to their usual chaotic normality . |
| 52 | But even as he spoke he doubted if Excepcionales Chicas would , when the plain Excepcionales was a stand-by , his favourite being Albeans or Invincibles . |
| 53 | But even as he asked the question , D'Arcy already knew the answer . |
| 54 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 55 | But even as he stepped off the plane from Taipei , a slip of the tongue showed how far the two sides have drifted apart , and how unreal to Taiwanese is the official vision of reunification . |
| 56 | But even as he reached for the man he lost his footing . |
| 57 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 58 | But even as he prayed he could hear the voice of William 's grandad berating him from under the lid of the closed coffin . |
| 59 | ‘ I think it 's all right , ’ responded Floy , warily , but even as he spoke he was wondering whether it was all right , and whether they might n't be better simply to walk back through the forest and on to the road . |
| 60 | ‘ Get back ! ’ he yelled to the others behind him , but even as he said it he understood . |