Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an exacting colleague , and college meetings lasted for hours as he reminisced about the past ; but it was his way of educating the fellows in the traditions of the college . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ the man replied between gasps as he heaved at the oars , ‘ there is something I can tell you . ’ |
| 3 | He had to slice up dead rabbits and pick the heads off snails as he visited some of the top kitchens in the county . |
| 4 | But there remained the problem which had been gnawing at his mind for months as he waited for his enemy to come home : how was he to get into the castle itself ? |
| 5 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |
| 6 | Then there was no more need for words as he slid deep within her , conquering the unchartered territories of her body and of her soul with one powerful thrust . |
| 7 | It was lively as usual , the mishmash of pop music blaring through loudspeakers as he walked among the crowd , mostly young people on the look-out for instant fun and excitement in an otherwise dreary world . |
| 8 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 9 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 10 | Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol of Germans as he traversed a long gallery , but the Germans were hampered by uncocked weapons , and Mortimer downed two of them with his Browning before ducking behind a turn in the wall , his men loosing a volley of rifle fire into the surviving guards . |
| 11 | Aycliffe coughed , and his glance drifted away to rest unseeingly on the shelves of books as he spoke . |
| 12 | We are in exile now and we have no money , " he would tell people who came to Morocco and asked to be paid for past services to the crown , It was not quite true , but certainly no longer disposed of the sort of funds as he had done when he was in power . |
| 13 | He could see the roof of Belmodes as he turned towards where Rose lived . |
| 14 | Immediately , Dora put her expression to rights , even squeezing out a polite smile of thanks as he set her glass in front of her , the epitome of a well-bred Englishwoman who never reveals her feelings before servants or foreigners . |
| 15 | The driver was being helped from his smashed vehicle , unleashing a stream of obscenities as he emerged . |
| 16 | Police had to erect barriers to keep crowds back as Charles was warmly greeted by hundreds of wellwishers as he arrived at Dundee 's City Square . |
| 17 | She felt Mr Browning 's arm round her and the gentlest of pressures as he pushed her into a seat . |
| 18 | Had Forbes lived longer , he might have founded at Edinburgh a school of naturalists as he hoped , and which was impossible at that date in London ; and he might have written a major work . |
| 19 | Gerard O'Hara ( 18 ) died in a hail of bullets as he sat watching television with his mother Bridget at their home at North Queen Street , Belfast , almost a year ago . |
| 20 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 21 | Well you have to tell a load of lies as he said well it 's a right shambles , nobody would go and see would they ? |
| 22 | Shadows drifted past him like fronds , dappled with refracted sunlight , tied with thin streams of bubbles as he sank slowly into the welcoming depths of the ocean , under the incurious eye of the great Whale … . |
| 23 | He then ran off towards the Alexander yacht club and is thought to have smashed a couple of windows as he made off . |
| 24 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 25 | ‘ Or did he want a couple with the same number of children as he had ? |
| 26 | In a large field he did not have the clearest of runs as he challenged as a result of which he finished fast but too late having to settle for fourth place to the Ebor winner Quick Ransom . |
| 27 | He smelled frying bacon and heard the chatter of women as he walked across the tiled hall and let himself out through a side door . |
| 28 | Erm so we walked in and out of carriages as he sought a pair of seats together and erm squashed down , he had me like penned into the window , like I 've got my bag and my umbrella in between ha , and I 'd already told him I was going out with someone . |
| 29 | He could still recall the sense of dread that hung over him for days as he waited to be thrashed for that escapade . |
| 30 | 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 ? |