Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aldridge made no sign or sound as he went through to the airing cupboard to get himself a fresh towel . |
| 2 | He spoke slowly , deliberately , first in the music of Quechua then in Spanish , or Castellano as he called it , stopping to emphasise his points with a jabbing , rhetorical ‘ eh-eh ? ’ |
| 3 | The warmth from the hot pipe that skirted a side wall billowed across Holly 's face , rubbed at the cold that had settled under his tunic and shirt as he had walked from the compound with the trustie from Internal Order . |
| 4 | A TEENAGER was robbed of his coat and jumper as he walked home from a pub , a court was told yesterday . |
| 5 | Dreamtime legends tell that the Julunggul , in his guise as a gigantic serpent , dug out many rivers and waterholes as he writhed through the desert sand . |
| 6 | Her husband Colin noticed responsive movements in her hands and jaw as he continued a bedside vigil . |
| 7 | Mr Brady told Judge Leo Clarke QC he hurt his knees and ankles as he ran away . |
| 8 | Sobbing , Herman Katz sank to the floor , drawing in his arms and legs as he assumed a foetal ball , trying to return to the safety of his mother 's womb . |
| 9 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 10 | Between 1577 and 1580 he sailed around the world — the first Englishman to carry out the feat originally achieved by the survivors of Magellan 's voyage 60 years earlier — plundering Spanish ships and towns of their gold and silver as he did so . |
| 11 | In Moscow , the screen-watcher was unaware of all this drama and emotion as he tracked the Citation across north-west Russia and into St Petersburg . |
| 12 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 13 | He was well aware that many of his remedies were extremely poisonous in crude doses and from this developed his system of serial dilution and succussion as he experimented with successive dilutions in order to achieve a healing effect without producing toxic side-effects . |
| 14 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 15 | He tried to ignore the murmured whispers and laughter as he made his way through the streets across London Bridge and back into Southwark . |
| 16 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 17 | He could remember very clearly the feeling of power and joy as he had held her head under the waters of the Danube that fine summer afternoon . |
| 18 | She lifted a hand to touch his cheek in wonder and joy as he smiled tenderly down at her . |
| 19 | He felt garbed in the robes of responsibility and consequence as he spoke . |
| 20 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 21 | He heard the lamentations and cries as he walked through the Galilee Gate , and hurried around to the main entrance where a distraught Lady Amelia was being supported by the two Sub-prioresses , their own cheeks wet with tears . |
| 22 | He dreamed of it and of himself catching it ; imagining it lunging and threshing as he played it and tussled to land it . |
| 23 | SOCCER player Mickey Thomas was attacked with a hammer and screwdriver as he made love to a married woman in his car , a court heard yesterday . |
| 24 | SOCCER player Mickey Thomas was attacked with a hammer and screwdriver as he made love with a married woman in his car , a court heard yesterday . |
| 25 | The late afternoon sun flashed again on red and chrome as he roared away . |
| 26 | Charles was handing round the silver tray of champagne , his smile one of pure pleasure and pride as he gazed round at the assembled family in the conservatory . |
| 27 | She was there at the departmental conference and he included her in the general nod and smile as he entered the executive producer 's office , but his eyes were guarded , and not just on her account . |
| 28 | With the onset of empire , the conflicts of interest between state and individual , and between luxury and austerity , were subsumed by the power of the emperor to embellish the city and court as he wished . |
| 29 | Richard Baxter preached with great urgency and seriousness as he pleaded with sinners to ‘ embrace the Redeemer with a lively faith ’ . |
| 30 | And Mary as he had first seen her appeared before him again like an apparition as he slid slowly into a long sleep . |