Example sentences of "as he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was watching her face intently , and a dark gleam of unholy amusement returned as he saw her cynical disbelief . |
| 2 | He half turned to look at her , then , as he saw her heightened colour , he said quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 3 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 4 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 5 | Memories of shared evenings , with cans of beer and football on the TV , flooded back to Bodie ; shared hours with Ray Doyle , mad pursuits , of cars , of women , shared jokes , anger , support ; he knew this small apartment almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 6 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 7 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 8 | During his early teens , McKenzie was a competent soccer player but , as he grew his nimble-footed agility was lost . |
| 9 | As he imposed his geometrical grid of drainage ditches across the newly filled-in estuary of the Traeth , it occurred to Madocks for a brief , but anxious , moment that the whole project resembled ‘ Dutch gardening ’ ; but in no time the poet Shelley arrived to help him with his endeavours , declaiming on the ‘ poetry of engineering ’ . |
| 10 | There was considerable applause from his listeners as he advanced his familiar protectionist argument . |
| 11 | His hands did n't roam , did n't take liberties that she might not have wanted him to take ; only his head moved , his mouth , as he kissed her first one way , then another ; drew her lower lip , infinitely gently , between his ; sampled the top lip , her tongue ; moved languidly to approach from another direction . |
| 12 | He was used to contrasts : Mother taking morning tea in bed with an old shawl round her shoulders and her hair pinned up under a boudoir cap , her face sticky with face cream as he kissed her good bye before school ; and Mother in full evening dress decked out in false pearls , her eyelashes beaded with mascara , dominating the stage in any play 's Last act … |
| 13 | She heard his harsh breathing , the rough exclamations of his own excitement as he kissed her deeper , his hands moving up her spine , thrusting into her thick black hair , blind passion exploding between them after so long . |
| 14 | With the other hand as he kissed her this chaste cool kiss , he reached back and shook free something from behind his neck . |
| 15 | His wife and mother beamed at him as he kissed them all in turn . |
| 16 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 17 | It sounded like a question , but he had no intention of waiting for her answer , as he dropped down on the bed beside her , lacing his fingers through her lustrous brunette tresses , controlling the movement of her head so she could not escape the seductive power of his mouth as he took her unwilling lips with practised artistry . |
| 18 | Shutting her eyes to the inevitability of what lay ahead , she gave herself up to the ride as he took her higher and higher into the peaks , following a winding route off the main road that was little used . |
| 19 | But as he took his three lifelong friends for a drive , the car veered over a dual carriageway and hit a bus head-on . |
| 20 | When the roaring giant of a tube train came , the fag sucker suddenly withdrew his double-buckled shoes from the concrete and became a little scuttling pixie to compete with all the other scuttling pixies , but managed a further quick change to a hunched-up half-shut-marble-eyed frowny scowling monkey as he took his tense unrest out on the floor of the tube train that was carrying him to his necessary employment . |
| 21 | His stare was suddenly gaunt , as he searched her white face . |
| 22 | D'Arcy 's grip tightened round her shoulders as he felt her hot tears against his skin . |
| 23 | As he felt his own orgasm beginning to pulsate be felt her legs gripping him and drove his penis into her as hard as he could , bursting inside her like a dam . |
| 24 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 25 | PC O'Neill took the children on a tour of Copy Lane Police Station as he began his new role as community policeman for Netherton , Sefton . |
| 26 | But as he began his sixth day his silent vigil ended . |
| 27 | The relationship with BitC was working well and , as he began his fortieth year , the future was looking positive . |
| 28 | ( I can picture the laibon as he told me this , his son sitting behind him on a rock flossing his teeth . ) |
| 29 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 30 | In a moment of youthful inspiration , the day after the funeral , he took one of his father 's bow ties , one reserved for special occasions , and opened up its seams , into which he infiltrated a message — his first poetic utterance , as he told his Spanish biographer , Alberto Manzano — long since forgotten ( or too painful to remember ? ) . |