Example sentences of "[adj] as he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy felt anger rise into his mouth , but he made himself remain calm as he described the dead girl from the land of the Twin Rivers . |
| 2 | He felt perfectly calm as he entered the shop . |
| 3 | And slowly and carefully he peeled the garment over her head , his hands unsteady as he completed the task . |
| 4 | Ruddock himself , back from a one-match ban after being sent off against Crystal Palace , was blameless as he met a Vinny Samways cross to beat Steve Ogrizovic . |
| 5 | We became alarmed as he turned the car towards El Gala bridge and the city . |
| 6 | ‘ What happened between us the other day , after our picnic — ’ his deep voice was suddenly slow and compelling as he steered the boat slowly towards the busy quay at Kalkara ‘ — that seemed … special . |
| 7 | One of the screens went blank as he hit a Counsellor . |
| 8 | For weeks he would live in a world by himself conscious as he watched the humdrum routine of his fellow prisoners that he was destined for higher things and happy in the knowledge that he was not as other men . |
| 9 | Gabriel felt sick as he realized the horrible truth . |
| 10 | Vic 's knuckles are white as he grips the steering wheel . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 12 | His knuckles were white as he gripped the steering-wheel . |
| 13 | Fred 's smile was brief as he entered the small sitting-room above the street on that February evening , and he turned and entered the back room where the baby lay in her cot . |
| 14 | Ranulf lifted the lantern horn and his blood ran cold as he glimpsed a gibbet standing there . |
| 15 | And Charles seemed relaxed as he made a series of routine visits to business and environmental seminars . |
| 16 | Leading scorer Paul Wilkinson struck his 20th goal of the season against his former club but looked glum as he left the dressing room . |
| 17 | Morgan felt more comfortable as he approached the Grange , still hidden by a copse of trees . |
| 18 | The bike bucked left as he hit a boulder and the front wheel struck the bank before he could straighten up . |
| 19 | It was half-protest , half-exhilaration as he obliterated the space between them , taking her in his arms to pull her body hard against his own . |
| 20 | He felt good as he negotiated the narrow lanes between Purton and Sharpness . |
| 21 | When the carriage stopped at Langley Dene , the butler seemed more deferential as he opened the door and Mrs Langley , instead of merely rising from her chair , came half way across the drawing-room to welcome Alexandra . |
| 22 | The number was useless to him as long as he had no address to go with it . |
| 23 | But she was afraid , of her own wild reaction to him , acutely conscious that he would be utterly merciless in taking advantage of it as long as he had no respect for her . |
| 24 | That 's an issue he 'd surely hold close between the two of them as long as he thought no absolute harm had come of it . |
| 25 | In fact Nathaniel had grown into a dissolute of considerable proportions by the time Dowd entered his employ , and could not have cared less what kind of creature Dowd was as long as he procured the right kind of company . |
| 26 | The captain can interpret the records as he wishes as long as he maintains a certain standard . |
| 27 | So , given that he 'd always have to keep a foot in England , if only during the cricket season , and given that as long as he kept a presence here he would be answerable to the Society , he had to face them . |
| 28 | Franco , too , knew that as long as he kept the lid of repression screwed tightly down on the Left , his fiercest opponents would never be able to constitute a serious threat . |
| 29 | He replied that it did n't matter a damn about that as long as he got the fish on the bank . |
| 30 | Ruling in the traditional Arab-Islamic style , he enjoys supreme power as long as he has the consensus support of the people who are consulted through an appointed Advisory Council . |