Example sentences of "as he [verb] [prep] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't know as he spewed on me . |
| 2 | The warrant officer was speechless , but not for long and he thundered at him as he had on me a few minutes before . |
| 3 | I could hear him sniff as he went before me . |
| 4 | He thought it was me , and he put on a bit of a spurt and as he went by I tripped him up . ’ |
| 5 | Erm he did n't even very much but as soon as he came between me and Juliet , he just I 'm lucky I killed him . |
| 6 | But , of course , Mr Major is no snarler , and , as he said to me , he thought he was tough enough already and he was n't going to change because he would then be a phoney . |
| 7 | As he said to me after relegation was confirmed last season , ‘ League football is still only fifteen divisions away , Les . ’ |
| 8 | But as he said to me , why do n't you go welding . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember my diamond ring scratching the table as he pressed against me , ’ the woman said . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you married ? ’ he said at once , head turned toward the din from his workmen as he stepped past me over the rubble and put a key into the lock of the , I should have thought , not yet apt to be plundered building . |
| 11 | He had a formidable reputation as a hard , cryptic , ruthless man whose god was perfection and whose greatest intolerance was for any weakness or sentiment which undermined it ; but there was something in his face as he looked at me which was very like kindness . |
| 12 | The judge was an old , kind man , but his face was very serious as he looked at me . |
| 13 | — I remember , & never shall forget , my father 's face as he looked upon me while I lay in the servant 's arms — so calm , and the tears stealing down his face : for I was the child of his old age . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Tunney , ’ he gasped — mistaking me for someone else ? as he reached for me with a flailing hand . |
| 15 | The Aird baby has a strong cast of thought and he imposes himself , philosophically speaking ; as he stared at me , lying on my lap , he seemed like a hand of mine . |
| 16 | I exchanged a greeting with a Frenchman of No. 4 Commando as he walked towards me . |
| 17 | As He says to me you can choose yir freends but you canny choose yir flock ! |
| 18 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 19 | Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's something in my b-b-bed , ’ I stammered as he bent over me . |
| 21 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 22 | He entered , as he explained to me later , what Carl Jung would probably have described as ‘ the middle period ’ . |
| 23 | It was this background knowledge that influenced the way in which Phil Barlow , the deputy head responsible for the curriculum , perceived the post and the appointment , as he explained to me : |
| 24 | The point was — as he explained to me throughout that autumn and the winter that followed — to understand that habit was ritual , and ritual was habit . |
| 25 | Why does he refuse to meet any groups other than farmers , as he confirmed to me in the House on 17 February ? |
| 26 | He bit the side of his large finger as he frowned at me , and then continued downstairs . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , ’ said Mortimer , as he turned to me and shook hands . |
| 28 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 29 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 30 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |