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 | The Frenchman 's voice betrayed no trace of humour , and his tanned , leathery face remained set in unsmiling lines as he spoke . |
| 11 | The bloke with the wooden leg made funny noises as he came up the stairs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then he was striding away from her , his boots echoing on the wooden boards as he made for the stairs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ In ye get , ya wee bastard , ’ he said affectionately , ruffling the urchin 's brown locks as he ran on past . |
| 23 | Davide caught his start when she leant over to give him a clean plate , how he set his chair straight and then , after a falter , flowed on , hammering the air with his clenched hands as he made his points , as if determined not to notice her . |
| 24 | Brown smiled and gave a thumbs up sign to the public benches as he left the dock . |
| 25 | A quick glance at the steel digital watch on his sinewy wrist and his eyes were washing over her , a hint of malice in their light depths as he dashed her hopes with cruel precision . |
| 26 | Something which ignited in those brown depths as he gazed down at her . |
| 27 | As Carole 's hand felt gingerly for the light switch , her husband grabbed her round the waist and buried his face in her neck , making growling noises as he did so . |
| 28 | Nor would snatched snaps of us going home in our car that evening have revealed any particular closeness as my passionate tirade about his behaviour fell on deaf or rather sleeping ears as he lay comatose in the passenger seat . |
| 29 | He smiled , mockery dancing in his dark eyes as he studied her furious face . |
| 30 | There was a glimmer of amusement in his dark eyes as he slid his fingers down to the pulse drumming wildly at the base of her throat . |