Example sentences of "[verb] as he [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkes was escorted from the pitch by police after sending off teenage winger Barkus who lashed out after being felled as he went for goal . |
| 2 | Eddery had been ‘ seen briefly , ’ but refused to comment as he left for Kempton 's evening meeting . |
| 3 | The 27-year-old , from Hornsey , north London , died in hospital after being attacked as he waited for a train with his brother at Finsbury Park Tube station . |
| 4 | Taylor added : ‘ Nigel will be asked to play as he does for his club , his normal game . |
| 5 | William sighed as he reached for the matches to relight his pipe . |
| 6 | " But there was a time long ago when the cassowary could fly as well as the bower-bird. " the old man rumbled as he reached for a sweetcorn in the cinders . |
| 7 | John Fleg 's chest heaved as he fought for breath . |
| 8 | Harding was looking at him now all right , voice shaking as he fought for control : ‘ Firstly … |
| 9 | The garments might be placed by his hemiplegic side , if there is no risk of him falling as he reaches for them , and if he is beginning to use the hemiplegic arm . |
| 10 | McCurbin died of asphyxiation from pressure applied to the neck , but the police who arrested him said that they thought he was faking as he struggled for life . |
| 11 | A different sort of light flickered in the distance , and Doyle crouched down , squinting as he sought for shape and identity in the night . |
| 12 | ‘ I know you speak Russian , ’ Myeloski said as he waited for the Englishman , ‘ but it would be better if we spoke only English . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's where you 're wrong , ’ I said as he reached for a pen . |
| 14 | I froze as he fumbled for his torch and , stark naked , staggered to the door . |
| 15 | Peter Gallagher , a 44-year-old Catholic , was killed as he arrived for work at the West Link Enterprise Centre off the Grosvenor Road . |
| 16 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 17 | You must learn to have a little more confidence in your … ’ he hesitated , his firmly-moulded lips slightly parted as he searched for a word ‘ … desirability . ’ |
| 18 | He then uses much the same repertory of colours and patterns and fin displays as he did for aggression , but in a female these trigger a series of different responses that eventually culminates in the laying of eggs . |
| 19 | J.G.V. writes about the knitters , especially one , ‘ Busby ’ , who used to fetch water from the water spouts ( the only supply ) , knitting as he waited for his pail to fill , he was ‘ one of the incessant knitters of Sedbergh ’ . |
| 20 | He found himself avoiding the street in which Francesca lived as he drove for North Kensington , calling ahead on his car phone to make sure that the forensic team was still there . |
| 21 | In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning . |
| 22 | Without a word he rolled off her , one arm raised to cover his eyes , chest heaving as he sought for control . |
| 23 | There was an ‘ Oof ! ’ of expelled air as the man fell to his knees , his broad shoulders heaving as he strained for his next breath . |
| 24 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |