Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were grouped just as he had left them , all looking warily after him . |
| 2 | When he re-crossed the clearing , he barely spared a glance at the three lifeless black shapes scattered there as he sped past . |
| 3 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 4 | Although the Panopticon was never built exactly as he designed it ( a modified version was constructed at Millbank on the Thames and opened , with extremely poor results , in 1917 ) , imprisonment rapidly became the pre-eminent method of punishment . |
| 5 | She was jerked forward as he slammed on the brakes and brought the car skidding to a halt on the gravel in front of the steps . |
| 6 | The doors had opened wide as he reached them . |
| 7 | He heard the front door being opened even as he unfolded the cloth and began to read . |
| 8 | The tragic yachtsman , a Tynesider in his 40s , was washed overboard as he tried to change a sail . |
| 9 | Voices were raised outside as he progressed through the crowd , but he told everyone to ‘ move on ’ and ‘ go home ’ , instructions which , of course , were ignored . |
| 10 | His face was set grimly as he sped away in his chauffeured Bentley with his personal assistant Belinda Harley . |
| 11 | His brow creased ominously as he pulled his lean length upright . |
| 12 | The divorced man was arrested yesterday as he left Armley jail , near Leeds , after serving six years over the kidnapping of a young Midlands girl . |
| 13 | A BRITISH solicitor wanted in the United States for alleged conspiracy to sell stolen British Treasury bills was arrested yesterday as he arrived in Cyprus . |
| 14 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 15 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 16 | Unless a player is totally without imagination , then he can not fail to be aware of what has gone before as he makes his pilgrimage round Augusta . |
| 17 | One that had gone even as he groped for it . |
| 18 | But his gaze was rigidly fixed ahead as he steered the little helicopter up the meandering Thames . |
| 19 | Things might have happened just as he says . |
| 20 | I felt as taken aback as he looked . |
| 21 | For a moment he was taken aback as he realised she was so sorry for him she was arranging a date . |
| 22 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 23 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 24 | Ligier team-mate Martin Brundle 's had a luckless 100th grand prix and was forced to retire and Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with Williams also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 25 | Afterwards , oesophagoscopy was repeated twice as he failed to respond to conservative management . |
| 26 | As he walked back out into the foyer , the girls automatically straightened again as he passed them . |
| 27 | His voice had hardened briefly as he added the caution , but when he went on again it was low and musing . |
| 28 | He was held yesterday as he drove to a villa in Longara , northern Italy . |
| 29 | The muscles in his face had flexed tight as he spoke and his breathing had become uneven . |