Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 2 | These movements are similar to the normal rotations of the pelvis when you stand up , so the patient is practising them in order not to jerk upwards awkwardly or sideways as he stands , as this would inevitably knock him off balance . |
| 3 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 4 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 5 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 6 | Lara , sweeping frequently , made a bright 50 , then Richardson — booed loud and long as he came in for his supposed anti Jamaican selections and his team 's poor World Cup performances — made 30 of a stand of 106 with Simmons . |
| 7 | Check that you have the positioning right and encourage your baby to feed for as often and long as he wants to stimulate the flow . |
| 8 | Lancaster 's voice had suddenly become animated and loud as he recalled the sting of his betrayal . |
| 9 | He was swearing steadily and obscenely as he did so , realising that the windscreen damage inflicted by the near miss would make it well-nigh impossible for him to engage in a high speed chase now . |
| 10 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 11 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He still is , the young idiot , and just as he was getting on his feet . |
| 14 | Ushering her inside , he walked into his study and just as he was about to close the door she remembered she had n't settled up with him . |
| 15 | He is against the proposed plan to introduce a 10-team league playing each other home and away as he feels it would be asking too much of the players . |
| 16 | And soon as he said righto Jack , take the rugs off , I 'd take or the , little lad helps me as well , you know and he takes the rugs off and then I tell them what to do you see . |
| 17 | They sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology . |
| 18 | The skin beneath his chin hung in thick folds that swayed back and forth as he walked . |
| 19 | Mister Johnny sat quiet and still as he always did when she talked , watching her mouth and moving his own as if he were trying to copy her . |
| 20 | And those breasts Dan ogled her innocently and unashamedly as he approached her , and continued to gawk over his shoulder after passing . |
| 21 | ‘ I think he 's very important because of that fact , and also as he knows the French set-up and the way they play . |
| 22 | She had taken to her marriage-bed , therefore , a certain natural innocence and all the ignorance considered essential to her station , of which Tristan had relieved her as gently and pleasantly as he had been able , his passion lacking the intensity which might , on those honeymoon nights , have alarmed her ; being , instead , a lighthearted matter , full of the nonchalant reflections of the man himself . |
| 23 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 24 | And even as he began , a top executive from Renault-Williams tried to persuade him not to go through with it . |
| 25 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 26 | And even as he watched it blurred . |
| 27 | And even as he gave up , as he let himself lean back against the wall , he was holding on , knowing he had backed down and it was over , but doing it gradually so we would n't see the change come over him . |
| 28 | He said the men had threatened his life , and even as he drove the victim to the beauty spot where the gang waited , one had been hiding in the boot of his car with a shotgun . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's true about Nicola Schreider , ’ Lucy confirmed , at length , rocking her baby son backwards and forwards as he showed signs of exercising the excellent lungs Charles had described . |
| 30 | Oz edged carefully down the slope , crouching every now and then as he reached a little bilberry bush . |