Example sentences of "[noun pl] as he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie laughed for the first time since he had left Whitechapel and strolled over to a youth far smaller than himself who was rubbing his hands between his legs as he tried to keep warm . |
| 2 | Philip 's face is sad , shadows are in his eyes as he turns to look . |
| 3 | There was a dark look in his eyes as he continued to look down at her , but as she proceeded to wriggle away from him he made no move to stop her . |
| 4 | Trent wiped the rain from his eyes as he tried to calculate speed and distance against the drift of the Zodiac . |
| 5 | Screwing up his eyes as he attempted to remember what Rose had said . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm a DK , lady , ’ he said to Defries , grunting the words as he struggled to keep his footing on the juddering floor . |
| 7 | ( He slips a coin over his shoulders as he goes to look upstage . ) |
| 8 | She gripped his hand as tightly as she could , feeling a terrific wrench on her shoulders as he tried to haul her in , steadying himself against the door to ensure that he did n't end up suffering the same fate as his companion . |
| 9 | He takes an impish delight in shocking the press and dismaying the clients as he prepares to change direction : ‘ To be provocative is important , and change is vital for personal survival . |
| 10 | Only one of his birdie putts was more than 12 feet as he continued to pepper the pins . |
| 11 | It did n't taste of anything much , and it did n't hit particularly hard , but then he did n't exactly feel steady on his feet as he came to stand , either . |
| 12 | Although the Bluebird appeared only in the last act , Shaw 's performance was widely considered the highlight of the evening 's entertainment ; and his brisees volees — little beats of the feet as he appeared to fly through the air — amazed even the Russians , on the company 's original visit to the Maryinsky . |
| 13 | Often a child asked to read his work aloud will pick out his own errors as he tries to say them , because he is a good enough reader to be confused by what he wrote down . |
| 14 | It was not an easy task for the coalman to make deliveries as he had to lump one hundredweight sacks , right through the house , down three steps , duck to miss the top of the door frame to the scullery , then a mighty heave to deposit coal costing one shilling a hundredweight in the exact spot . |
| 15 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 16 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 17 | RED ALERT SUPER Souness is back , refusing to compromise or adopt any half-measures as he plots to put Liverpool back on top of the league |
| 18 | On Jan. 22 Michael Wortley , a British employee at the Panguna mine , was killed by rebels as he attempted to clear an emergency airstrip for the evacuation of the remainder of the mine 's employees . |
| 19 | Hubert bent nails , made patterns with metal bars and suffered agonies as he struggled to lift massive weights . |
| 20 | as if things were not bad enough without those little bastards turning up to torment us , ’ remarked one of the medics as he tried to pack a shell dressing into a large abdominal wound . |
| 21 | It was perhaps more than the chill air that flushed the parson 's cheeks as he bent to fasten his skates . |
| 22 | Later he would travel to France and England , where he met with more senior BCCI officials as he tried to make arrangements to launder millions of dollars a month . |
| 23 | They dictate the shape of many land-holdings , parishes , counties , and even parts of the Welsh and Scottish borders , as is well known to the poor river engineer who has to negotiate with different landowners , not to mention councils , on opposing banks as he tries to promote his scheme . |
| 24 | Henry Cecil 's colt pulverised his rivals to win the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster last autumn and is now guaranteed similar conditions as he bids to return to Group One winning form on Saturday . |
| 25 | In the opening stanza of Robert Frost 's 'stopping by woods ' a traveller begins a series of reflections as he stops to enjoy the sight of the snow falling upon the nearby woods . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Arty 's voice thickened and blurred into animal grunts as he tried to speak and extend his tongue at the same time . |
| 28 | The story , involving a bricklayer 's misfortunes as he attempted to lower some bricks from the top of a building in a barrel , was not especially funny , but Hoffnung 's manner and delivery reduced his audience to hysterics . |
| 29 | THE unemployed can do without Peter Lilley 's daft comments as he plans to make more people jobless . |
| 30 | A frown marred his handsome features as he turned to look at her , then he informed her gravely . |