Example sentences of "as he [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | JACKO kept fuming police waiting for nearly an hour as he went on a midnight shopping spree — for new toys . |
| 2 | Barbados had witnessed a rather different Hanif a year earlier as he took out a 16-hour 10-minute lease on the crease and sculpted a monumental 337 against Worrell and Co . |
| 3 | Do you have to ? ’ she snarled at him as he took out a cigarette . |
| 4 | What was odd , thought Twoflower as he strolled down a wide flight of stairs and kicked up billowing clouds of silver dust motes , was that the tunnels here were much wider . |
| 5 | Newry were without the services of Erroll Lutton as he sweats out a three match suspension , but the return of Stephen Garvey and the addition of Ritchie Nummy to Newry 's back line-up certainly seemed to work well . |
| 6 | Police say he only survived because he did n't hit anything as he rolled down an embankment . |
| 7 | HAMILTON PARK has always been one of Jack Berry 's happiest hunting grounds , and the Cockerham-based trainer was in his customary bubbly mood as he brought off a 15-1 double yesterday at the track 's final meeting of 1992 . |
| 8 | The gunman looked around him wildly and the crowd parted as he darted up a narrow alleyway . |
| 9 | But Black , of Durranhill Road , Carlisle , was stopped again by police after his release as he drove along a narrow country lane . |
| 10 | The 31-year-old Scot skidded across the track into a fence after the back wheel of his Banco Yamaha broke away as he powered round a bend . |
| 11 | Slit-eyed against the blinding rain , he hurled his weight forward as he powered up a ridge , the rear wheel tearing at shale and mud . |
| 12 | Resigning herself to the inevitable , she walked quietly alongside him as he kept up a running commentary on all they passed or saw . |
| 13 | She heard the slap-slap of his brush as he filled in a large area of sky . |
| 14 | " That was n't history , that was Hollywood ! " he exclaimed as he kicked off an examination of interpretations of history . |
| 15 | ‘ I needed a break from routine rather badly , ’ he said as he drew up a chair and sat down . |
| 16 | He sat cross-legged at the foot of the grave , unaware of the passing of time as he hewed out a cross with his bayonet . |
| 17 | ‘ Haw — ha — ha — ’ he gasped , putting one hand on another pump to steady himself as he bent over a little and looked at his feet , the other hand on a knee , his chest heaving . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , at least it was positive , ’ he said ruefully as he put up a blunt-fingered hand to touch his cheek . |
| 19 | Luke moved swiftly round the desk to where she sat , and she flinched as he put out a hand , lifting a loose , shining curl away from the side of her brow . |
| 20 | As soon as he sat down a slave laid a plate in front of him . |
| 21 | The Irish backs missed tackles while Penaud was authoritative , Sadourny incisive and Viars electric as he clocked up a record 24-point haul . |
| 22 | Weaver ran through the gap between the houses , waving his right hand almost uselessly as he snapped off a second shot at Bodie . |
| 23 | As he follows up a security leak about a number of suspicious deaths in the nuclear industry , around him a more macabre series of murders are taking place . |
| 24 | Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up a fastest time of the day . |
| 25 | ‘ What in the world … ? ’ began Rose , feeling quite bewildered as he let out an amused laugh . |
| 26 | ‘ I think , ’ Nathan 's voice had an odd rasp as he pulled out a wad of papers and dropped them on the table , ‘ you 'd better get some sleep . |
| 27 | ‘ You can leave after lunch , ’ he said flatly , and then paused , frowning as he pulled out a vast painting of Rachel lying on a blazing sunlit beach , her slender body clad in a brief white bikini , her face young and lovely . |
| 28 | Damien Walsh , from Colinvale , Poleglass , was murdered on Thursday night as he closed up a fuel suppliers in the Dairy Farm Centre . |
| 29 | ‘ Allegory ’ would after all imply , to Tolkien ( see pp. 33–7 above ) , that The Lord of the Rings had only one meaning , which would have to remain constant all the way through ; he toyed contemptuously with the notion in the ‘ Foreword ’ as he sketched out a plan for his work as a real allegory with the Ring itself as president Truman 's atomic bomb . |
| 30 | ‘ Plays funny tricks on you , does the mind , ’ Haverford said as he poured out a final nightcap of Chianti . |