Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fired through the windows of his bungalow home as he watched television . |
| 2 | Now she caught a glimpse of his face again as he drew the straps down from her shoulders and found her unencumbered by a bra . |
| 3 | John Hitch had seemed convinced that it would and Plummer trusted the instincts of his colleague almost as he trusted his own . |
| 4 | Wilko and out : British No 2 Chris Wilkinson pulled off the most spectacular win of his career today as he put fourth seed Goran Ivanisevic out of the Stella Artois Championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 5 | LIVERPOOL soccer manager Graeme Souness went for a drive with his girlfriend yesterday as he continued his recovery from a triple heart by-pass operation . |
| 6 | I , I think he 's drawing into his shell there as regards friends outside the family . |
| 7 | The reformer , like a US president with a recalcitrant supreme court , can secure a majority in his favour only as they retire , die or move on to better things . |
| 8 | And she had hardly disappeared from view before Arthur Conway turned on Agnes , a growl in his voice now as he said , ‘ What 's up with you ? |
| 9 | His passion for his cousin prefigures many subsequent unfulfilled arousals later in his life exactly as , in moments of heightened sensibility , he reveals an almost Puritan recoil from any way of life that was not earnest , spiritually fruitful , and socially useful . |
| 10 | Alec Guinness introduced him to the audience after the first night , although such was his nervousness that Sherek had to push him onto the stage and , when a photographer blew a flash bulb in his face just as he was about to speak , he muttered " Oh my God " . |
| 11 | The muffled scream rose in his throat again as he felt the heat growing more intense , the closer to the blazing rings his hand was pulled . |
| 12 | All this information , derived as it was from chance remarks of Mr Malik 's , threatened to slip away from his memory even as he was talking . |
| 13 | Rohmer stepped forward purposefully , reaching inside his coat again as he did so . |
| 14 | Gina ran her bike over his foot viciously as she went out through the narrow hall . |
| 15 | You could see he 'd stuck invisible tape over his mouth so as not to cry . |
| 16 | One typical Whig satire of 1710 had Louis XIV thanking the Tories for coming to his rescue just as he was losing the war , saying " your very Principles are agreeable to absolute Monarchy , and Designs of Tyranny ; and your Practices are … such as have often reliev 'd and supported me " . |
| 17 | POTHOLER Ellis Barker , 36 , from Manchester plunged 60ft to his death yesterday as he explored a cave near Santander , Spain . |
| 18 | H well , back to obscurity , ’ a Tory MP muttered to his colleague yesterday as they passed a journalist who failed to leap forward and solicit their views on the party leadership . |
| 19 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 20 | He showed his surprise on his face now as she leaned still further over the counter and whispered , ‘ The sleeping beauty 's at a loose end : she 's off from three . ’ |
| 21 | Vice-president MacFarlane will have plenty on his plate now as he tries to pull all the ideas together into the first draft paper on the way to creating the eventual plan for formal consideration in November . |
| 22 | As it is , he 's put off his fishing so as to entertain you — ’ |
| 23 | He looked at his watch pointedly as they met . |
| 24 | I said no ! ’ she screamed , slapping at his hand blindly as she finally managed to drag her bruised mouth from his . |
| 25 | The driver , who was normally employed as a fitter , but had some driving experience with the Corporation , was acting as a relief driver and was found to be principally to blame for the accident , because of his lack of experience , which resulted in his letting the car take the curve at too great a speed and the conductor for applying the hand brake at his end so as to lock the wheels ; he had received no instruction on the proper procedure . |
| 26 | Harry pulled a face at his brother now as Ellen put in quickly , ‘ The Hallidays too and their cousins , two young ladies who are staying with them . ’ |
| 27 | It could have been Jamie , padding softly around his flat so as not to disturb the neighbours . |
| 28 | In the case of joint tenancy , on the other hand , the rights of each ( except the last survivor ) are extinguished by his death so as to increase the interest of the survivor or survivors . |