Example sentences of "as he [verb] his [adj] " 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 | During his early teens , McKenzie was a competent soccer player but , as he grew his nimble-footed agility was lost . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | There was considerable applause from his listeners as he advanced his familiar protectionist argument . |
| 8 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 9 | But as he took his three lifelong friends for a drive , the car veered over a dual carriageway and hit a bus head-on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But as he began his sixth day his silent vigil ended . |
| 15 | The relationship with BitC was working well and , as he began his fortieth year , the future was looking positive . |
| 16 | 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 ? ) . |
| 17 | Albert did not agree , as he told his long-suffering neighbour , Mr Jones of The Two Pheasants , one bright morning as soon as the pub was open . |
| 18 | ‘ A plant needs air , sunshine , moisture , and certain chemicals — given these it does its own growing ’ , he explained as he amplified his educational stance . |
| 19 | THE scarred survivor of a fireball sobbed in the witness box yesterday as he recalled his dramatic escape from a murder-trap car which he thought had killed his girlfriend . |
| 20 | The kindly gentleman seemed very English to me , and we often took tea together as he recalled his adventurous exploits in Tibet . |
| 21 | St John 's face looked sterner than usual and his lip curled in disapproval , as he lifted his handsome head and looked straight into Miss Oliver 's laughing eyes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | AMERICAN university students gave the Prince of Wales a rousing welcome at the weekend as he continued his first overseas trip since the December announcement of the collapse of his marriage . |
| 24 | Magee paid it little heed as he continued his nocturnal stroll , looking around him constantly , occasionally slowing down to look over his shoulder or perhaps changing direction quickly , ducking into a group of people . |
| 25 | Julius quickly sorted through them , tossing them carelessly on to the floor as he continued his fast but thorough search . |
| 26 | He makes the point in The Childhood , as he describes his half-holiday explorations with Arthur Hardy : ‘ We merely became accustomed to the general life of the common birds and animals ’ . |
| 27 | In a finale the police colonel complements Gumede as he describes his ideal home : ‘ Freedom , man . |
| 28 | John Fenn , prosecuting , said Youds was spotted by police as he drove his G-registration Vauxhall Cavalier along the westbound carriageway of the A45 . |
| 29 | Derek Waterworth ( 63 ) was in good health as he drove his 22-ton lorry carrying shale into Sowerby Bridge , West Yorkshire , just after 9am on Monday . |
| 30 | Colin Parry , 37 , a personnel officer , wept as he said his 12-year-old son would never be the way he was but they wanted him to live and they would make a life for him . |