Example sentences of "as he [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 4 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 5 | With the other hand as he kissed her this chaste cool kiss , he reached back and shook free something from behind his neck . |
| 6 | His wife and mother beamed at him as he kissed them all in turn . |
| 7 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( I can picture the laibon as he told me this , his son sitting behind him on a rock flossing his teeth . ) |
| 11 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 12 | His eyes gleamed and he breathed noisily through his nose as he lifted his own rifle to his shoulder then fired both barrels at the shadow in quick succession . |
| 13 | Kuhlmann looked at his assistant , Kurt Meyer , as he replaced his own phone . |
| 14 | His optimism grew as he made his own assessment of the other candidates . |
| 15 | She watched as he made his own examination before straightening up . |
| 16 | For the girl 's eyes , which he was beginning to read as he read his own children 's , had flared briefly in vindictive joy , and again veiled themselves . |
| 17 | A terse and gritty thriller in which an investigation into a mysterious death leads cop Joe Mantegna through both the mean streets of the present and the horrors of the past as he confronts his own identity . |
| 18 | NEIL KINNOCK vainly sought to put a brave face on a night of setbacks for Labour as he increased his own majority in Islwyn to a record for the constituency . |
| 19 | Here , as he put it many years later , he made the |
| 20 | Rune 's voice , low and demanding , stilled her hand as he held his own glass towards her . |
| 21 | I looked at Jean-Claude as he gave me these instructions and I saw a side of him I did not recognize . |
| 22 | In all her suppressed longing for David , Julia had never imagined such gentleness as he gave her that night or such freedom . |
| 23 | Few words had been spoken — Denis had been glad of his gun 's eloquence as he found his own voice suddenly unreliable . |
| 24 | The headmaster expanded into geniality as he contemplated his own cleverness in ensuring that Hilary Frome remained at Burleigh for his GCE year . |
| 25 | ‘ Just another five minutes , ’ Nick begged , not taking his eyes from the ball as he whacked it half way down the table . |
| 26 | John Hitch had seemed convinced that it would and Plummer trusted the instincts of his colleague almost as he trusted his own . |
| 27 | But the news that Dalglish is prepared for another big-name auction will dismay his former Liverpool team-mate Graeme Souness , as he makes his own bid for Ferdinand . |
| 28 | Was it because of Emmanuel Steele , who had his shoemaking shop between the Misses Cardings and the bakery and who was well into his forties , but apparently had no use for women , inasmuch as he did his own housework in the rooms above the shop , and ate most of his meals out . |
| 29 | He still irritated her with his casual dress , the sloppy tie hanging round his neck , the top button always undone , the lazy grin and teasing remarks in front of her colleagues , but as he teased them all she was in no way singled out . |
| 30 | Then he continued to watch her as he poured himself more coffee . |