Example sentences of "as he [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colour of his neck faded as he returned to the table with the drinks . |
| 2 | Mariana looked up as he returned to the living-room . |
| 3 | Lord John smiled winningly as he returned to the table . |
| 4 | Atef Bseisou , the director of external security for the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , was killed as he returned to the Hotel Meridien in Montparnasse , Paris , in the early hours of June 8 . |
| 5 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 6 | Brief introductions were made and Porter explained about their last cell-mate , just as he had to the prison delegation . |
| 7 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 8 | Perhaps that would explain it , why he 'd lost his composure with Antonini , why he 'd reacted as he had to the woman . |
| 9 | She had watched him carefully , almost lovingly , as he went to the window . |
| 10 | As he went to the net , he raised one finger in the air as if to acknowledge the banners that proclaimed him No 1 — he might not be but the way he played last night he could be again soon . |
| 11 | Lord John laughed as he went to the sideboard where he helped himself to toast , ham and coffee . |
| 12 | He grunted something unintelligible as he went to the security cupboard and slammed it shut , twisting his key in the lock . |
| 13 | The cameras focused on him as he went to the back of the green to kiss first Midge and then Chris . |
| 14 | His false leg was a legacy of Dunkirk and he limped noticeably as he went to the drinks cupboard and poured a whisky . |
| 15 | This was as elementary as his lesson to Hoomey : from the side of the bath he put his foot on the back of Jazz 's head as he came to the side , and stepped in , taking Jazz 's head with him , forcing in abrupt and most accomplished somersault . |
| 16 | Two things made him slow down as he came to the entrance . |
| 17 | Mains now realises tat there is a need for a certain amount of public relations work in his job , especially as he came to the coaching position under strained circumstances . |
| 18 | " And if you 'll undertake her education in addition , " said Andrew as he came to the end of his story , " I would be much obliged . |
| 19 | As he came to the door he found his horse ready ‘ most richly adorned with a covering of imbrodered pearle and precious stones , saddle and all furniture agreeable to it ’ . |
| 20 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 21 | Maurice , an amiable young man , had realised as soon as he came to the Reach that Richard was always going to do this and that he himself would accordingly be known as Dondeschiepolschuygen IV which was inscribed in gilt lettering on his bows . |
| 22 | As he came to the parapet , the APC turned down the road . |
| 23 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 24 | A rider , still out of sight around a bend , came toward her , crashing heavily through the regrowth As soon as he came to the turn , where the path was open to the sky , she saw it was the Master , Lord Watson Wyatt himself . |
| 25 | Then , as she watched , a light came on in one of the upper rooms , and she shifted uneasily as she recognised Luke as he came to the window and looked out . |
| 26 | This was the most precious moment , as he came to the end of his thrilling song , and his gentle but vibrant voice faded away on a note of infinitely passionate promise … |
| 27 | He dropped to his knees and tried to scramble away but Julie hit him again , kicking him hard in the ribs as he fell to the ground . |
| 28 | As Wright challenged the goalkeeper for the dropped ball , however , Nelson recovered to kick it clear as he fell to the ground . |
| 29 | There was something comfortingly familiar in this maddening ruin , this mythagoscape , generated by a burned airman many years in the past , created by him as he journeyed to the innermost and most ancient place of all . |
| 30 | His , his personal stereo headphones get knocked off as he falls to the floor , and dinkly dinkly dinkly dinkly , |