Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] as he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izzie left them deep in animated conversation — the monk laughing out loud as he realized he was being lured into an acting profession — and went inside the house to find Gabriel . |
| 2 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 3 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 4 | Somehow she could never hear disembodied footsteps on the stairs without wondering fleetingly if it might be Mark returning as unexpectedly as he had left . |
| 5 | ‘ It is curious that he is dying as picturesquely as he lived , ’ wrote Mr Gosse . |
| 6 | Thus , for example , in regard to proceedings in court , the mere absence of UK qualifications will not disqualify an EC lawyer from acting so long as he is instructed with and acts in conjunction with a UK lawyer . |
| 7 | She had reached a zenith of feeling , and really did n't care which hole he was shafting so long as he was inside her . |
| 8 | 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me . |
| 9 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 10 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 11 | In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December . |
| 12 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
| 13 | With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could . |
| 14 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 15 | Facing him , she wasted no time , the words pouring forth just as he drew a reluctant breath before speech . |
| 16 | He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go . |
| 17 | ‘ God , it 's handy having you around ! ’ says Phil , scribbling as fast as he can . |
| 18 | Among the gentry residing there was to be found Mr Benedict Beckenham , riding as hard as he could to the devil . |
| 19 | Corydon , speaking as well as he can in Mira 's defence , observes : |
| 20 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 21 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 22 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 23 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
| 24 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 25 | Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended . |
| 26 | Mcallister does seem to be overshadowed by him when he is on the pitch , looking for him to take the lead , provide the inspiration etc which strach is no longer doing as well as he once did . |
| 27 | He heard a cry from the top + the sound of something falling , but he kept running as fast as he could , meowing loudly . |
| 28 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |
| 29 | ‘ It might be too late , ’ shouted Greg , coughing even here as he inhaled . |
| 30 | Oh God ! ’ he was yelling aloud now as he stumbled back towards Martin and then stood looking down at him . |