Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there was no appeal , in my opinion the Home Secretary was bound to change his policy for discretionary life sentence cases as he did in 1987 . |
| 2 | Ken Mentle , who often made up club rules as he went along , declared that his was the casting vote and promptly blocked the appointment , incredibly naming himself as manager . |
| 3 | Thankfully he went up to it , getting a grip on its side ropes as he surfaced . |
| 4 | He did not look at the still bowing surveyors as he spoke , but at Alexei . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , a High Court judge warned of a serious problem because of a log-jam of refugee cases as he gave leave for two of them to seek judicial review of Home Office decisions to refuse them asylum . |
| 6 | It 's believed they were left on nearby Sussex Drive by one of the car thieves as he made his escape . |
| 7 | The aging houngan 's grim facade held for a moment , then dissolved into a spray of laughter lines as he smiled . |
| 8 | Paul Deas averted more danger for the home men as he ended a fine run by Neil Duffy . |
| 9 | She submitted meekly to his expert ministrations as he re-dressed the wound , giving her terse instructions to keep it dry from then on until the stitches were removed . |
| 10 | A caricature of a dog was sitting on the lawn in front of one of the town houses as he passed , and it laid its head on its paws and looked at him with dark eyes . |
| 11 | He shivered in shop doorways as he waited for the traffic lights to give him green . |
| 12 | Branson was not able to inspire the same sense of esprit de corps among the hastily assembled team of Event journalists as he had always done among the staff at Virgin , and the magazine quickly became rife with internecine dispute and conspiracy theories . |
| 13 | CLIPPED tree branches as he swooped in too low ; |
| 14 | Unlike Farr-Jones and Doyle , Meagher was at the coal face of the tourism problems as he led a group of 48 Australian supporters who travelled throughout South Africa during the tour . |
| 15 | There were no lights on in the basement flat and precious little illumination spilling into the enclosed yard from above ; he banged and scraped his hands on table legs and chair legs as he groped around , and he even cracked his head a couple of times . |
| 16 | He spilled some of the machine tea from the plastic cups as he moved , and one of the wizened youths glanced back for a moment in disapproval . |
| 17 | One evening , however , as the never-failing north wind freshened , rustling the tops of the dom palms as he walked back to the harbour quarter , he had the impression that someone was dogging his steps . |
| 18 | He took a sip of his own drink and sat down in the leather chair closest to the fireplace , looking into the authentic fake gas flames as he sipped his drink . |
| 19 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 20 | ‘ Evening Landlord , Master Gates , ’ he spoke in a loud voice and exercised his usual habit of momentarily standing on tip toes as he addressed them . |
| 21 | His sister Elizabeth remembered that as a child he half closed his eyes at meal times as he sat with his family . |
| 22 | SCOTLAND 'S senior judge gave warning yesterday of severe sentences on bank raiders as he jailed a man for five years . |
| 23 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 24 | Arty 's voice thickened and blurred into animal grunts as he tried to speak and extend his tongue at the same time . |
| 25 | The faintest hint of amusement glimmered in his obsidian eyes as he raised one jet-black eyebrow . |
| 26 | Paramount supremo Frank Mancuso received death threats as he voiced plans to do a Police Academy -style Star Trek . |
| 27 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 28 | Mr Drumgoole , who is in his early 30s , was shot once in the stomach by two INLA gunmen as he sat outside his home in Hazelfield Street . |