Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a dry , spinsterish man whom Paul disliked , and who could voice his narrow opinions as he chose , having means of his own . |
| 2 | His brain seemed to be malfunctioning — his emotions felt like torn rags as he stared at the theatre programme that sat on top of his desk . |
| 3 | He pulled a high stool from beneath the breakfast bar , the denim jeans he was wearing tightening over his muscular thighs as he sat down . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're going to pay for that , you son-of-a-bitch , ’ the man hissed through clenched teeth as he wiped the blood from his cheek with the back of his hand . |
| 5 | There was no deterioration in that lovely running style , but the strain showed in his sunken eye sockets and through his gritted teeth as he circled the track to the bitter and glorious end . |
| 6 | ‘ A lesson to be learned here , Devlin , ’ he said through gritted teeth as he raised his other hand in front of Jimmy 's face . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he said through gritted teeth as he set off down the corridor . |
| 8 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 9 | He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away . |
| 10 | He climbed up the steps , pipe in mouth , grunted out a few words as he entered the attic and blew the lamp out , plunging them all into total darkness . |
| 11 | The Frenchman 's voice betrayed no trace of humour , and his tanned , leathery face remained set in unsmiling lines as he spoke . |
| 12 | The bloke with the wooden leg made funny noises as he came up the stairs . |
| 13 | Only one of his birdie putts was more than 12 feet as he continued to pepper the pins . |
| 14 | The court last year heard he almost put down on the A4 at rush-hour , skimmed the Penta Hotel , and missed a telephone exchange by 12 feet as he approached Heathrow . |
| 15 | Their personal contact goes back to June 1991 , when Yeltsin , newly elected Russian president but under threat from the Soviet army and KGB , was seeking the support of reliable elements as he set about forming a government . |
| 16 | As was common at the time , William went straight from school into the merchant navy and he was seldom at home throughout his teenage years as he sailed the oceans of the world , learning the skills of seamanship and navigation . |
| 17 | James planned a diversionary landing in Scotland and Major-General William Buchan was sent to Dunkirk with such few troops as he had been able to assemble to sail direct to Aberdeenshire . |
| 18 | Then he was striding away from her , his boots echoing on the wooden boards as he made for the stairs . |
| 19 | He was shedding his wet things as he spoke , and a glance at me indicated who was supposed to hurry off and get him the hot drink . |
| 20 | It was already nightfall when Whitlock crossed the Heuss Bridge over the Rhine and turned the Golf Corbio into Rampenstrasse , his eyes screwed up behind his tinted glasses as he tried to distinguish the numbers , many of them faded and indistinct , on the rows of warehouses lining the river bank . |
| 21 | He had even been overheard on the radio by British Coastguards as he arranged a rendezvous on one occasion , but in spite of a tip-off we had been unable to trap him . |
| 22 | She welcomed him with outstretched arms as he came to her , knowing there was no retreat now and glorying in the thought of her forthcoming submission . |
| 23 | He dropped a few matches as he fumbled disconsolately with his smoking equipment . |
| 24 | It was completely contrary to Lord Darlington 's natural tendencies to take such public stances as he came to do and I can say with conviction that his lordship was persuaded to overcome his more retiring side only through a deep sense of moral duty . |
| 25 | Cadfael stooped and picked it up , and the thicker end , broken and dangling , shed a fluttering debris of tindery flakes as he swung it in his hand . |
| 26 | Melissa watched for a few seconds as he worked , apparently impervious to the heat , then turned back to where the others were waiting . |
| 27 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 28 | He cut a dashing figure at the many conferences he addressed , raising his hand from time to time to stroke his dark curly locks as he poured out pure reason in soft well-modulated tones with a sincerity that was almost painful . |
| 29 | ‘ In ye get , ya wee bastard , ’ he said affectionately , ruffling the urchin 's brown locks as he ran on past . |
| 30 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |