Example sentences of "[noun pl] as he [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The faintest hint of amusement glimmered in his obsidian eyes as he raised one jet-black eyebrow . |
| 3 | Corbett went over and examined the bodies , wiping the sweat from his eyes as he turned each of the corpses over . |
| 4 | He did not have time to check his mirrors for police cars as he passed All Hallows-on-the-Wall and plunged into the long straight canyon of London Wall . |
| 5 | Among the victims was 15-year-old James Kennedy , whose last words as he lay dying were : ‘ Tell mummy I love her . ’ |
| 6 | With a shudder , she tightened her arms around the wide strength of his shoulders as he trailed small , teasing kisses from her lips , along her jawline , and up into the spread curtain of her hair . |
| 7 | His rehearsed words froze on his lips as he became aware of the tension between the women . |
| 8 | In the next instant Travis was rising and she was set back on her feet as he put some distance between them . |
| 9 | He hummed the little tones as he pressed each key . |
| 10 | It have been pouring down with rain on a wet Saturday afternoon , but the sight of Best , haircut shimmying in unison with his hips as he splayed three hard nut halfbacks , was Manchester 's version of Hollywood on legs . |
| 11 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |
| 12 | The 77-year-old ignored flashing blue lights as he drove nine miles down the middle lane of the M5 at 40mph . |
| 13 | Robbie observed him through lowered lashes as he made hearty inroads on the food . |
| 14 | In the meantime , said Thorfinn , since the western portion of Lothian adhering to the lands of Strathclyde and Cumbria and the old see of Glasgow had never , as he understood it , been in dispute , he intended to dispose of the land there as he thought best , with such fortifications as he considered necessary to preserve order . |
| 15 | THE FIANCEE of murdered British tourist Keith Thompson cradled him in her arms as he lay dying and kept saying : ‘ I love you , Keith , please breathe , ’ it was revealed last night . |
| 16 | Suddenly Alexei remembered Tarvaras as he had first seen it — a revolving holographic projection suspended in the viewing well of the briefing amphitheatre of an Imperial survey vessel , the Simonova — off which he and five other humans had been marooned over twelve standard years earlier . |
| 17 | Thus , where a landlord was entitled to enter the demised property to carry out such improvements , additions and alterations as he considered reasonable , he was held to be entitled to demolish and reconstruct all the existing buildings comprising the demised property without putting an end to the tenancy ( Price v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd ( 1980 ) 255 EG 243 ) . |
| 18 | She watched his hands as he pushed open the packet and pulled out a cigarette . |
| 19 | He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box . |
| 20 | ‘ Coleman 's duties with the Ordnance were to examine for soundness all ‘ recruit ’ horses , advise on the treatment of disease , inspect at outstations , bringing in such cases as he thought necessary for treatment at Woolwich , to lecture occasionally to the officers , artillery cadets and farriers , and to direct the shoeing . ’ |
| 21 | He had to slice up dead rabbits and pick the heads off snails as he visited some of the top kitchens in the county . |
| 22 | They allowed him through the security system first , leaving them trapped behind the time-lock doors as he made good his escape . |