Example sentences of "as he [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he rarely lifts his head off the pillow — yours usually , I believe , my sweet — I fail to see how he 's qualified to judge . ’ |
| 2 | And always , at the back of his mind , there was the business with the Police ; a mere shadow , as he repeatedly reminded himself , without substance , but there just the same and often , as he went through Ostkreuz on the S-Bahn , he was tempted to get off and see Lieutenant Werner , merely to get the matter sorted out once and for all but , mindful of Bodo 's advice , he never did . |
| 3 | Charlie showed no obvious signs of friendship as he immediately caught me on the chin . |
| 4 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
| 5 | Sweeting also confirmed that the Miss Johnson story originated from his aunt who , as he wittily put it , ‘ could only know what was told her ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , no ? ’ he drawled mockingly as he slowly lowered his dark head towards her . |
| 7 | And that was exactly what the radiologist was doing as he slowly ran his sensor over my stomach . |
| 8 | A faint , derisive smile curved Dane 's lips as he slowly shook his head . |
| 9 | As he slowly revolved he observed all points of the compass with eyes wide in wonder . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ he whispered urgently , as he slowly pushed her head down again . |
| 11 | A WEALTHY furrier tortured his boss 's wife and a former lover , then filmed them as he finally murdered them . |
| 12 | There was a strange glitter in his eyes as he blatantly goaded her . |
| 13 | In his prose Isaac Ware writes with deep suspicion of true Rococo plasterwork , those ‘ wild leaves ’ as he nervously describes them . |
| 14 | To forestall his next movement ( such as his taking her in his arms ) Franca moved rapidly round the table , took a firm hold of his shoulder , and , as he instinctively lowered his head , kissed his hot blushing cheek . |
| 15 | ‘ Boom , Boom , ’ says the boogieman , as he coolly shoots his lady down , rams her into his car , steers off to his house , gets a bang out of watching her walking the floor , and then settles down for a bit of baby talk . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell you what ? ’ he asked as he hastily clamped her hand still and moved it back to his chest . |
| 17 | Did he dare to impute such motives to her as he clearly had himself ? |
| 18 | Rune 's eyes swept across her open face and she saw his jaw tighten momentarily as he clearly read her distress . |
| 19 | It is ironic that your educational piece did not recognise Mr Heinlein , as he clearly recognised your educational role . |
| 20 | Larry was informed that another aircraft was on cockpit checks and would he like to fly in that , especially as he already had his flying kit . |
| 21 | He had selected Andrew Beattie as the spokesman as he already knew him . |
| 22 | This ‘ black day ’ , as he later called it , convinced the neutral ( and strongly socialist ) Barth that not only the political ideals of his teachers , but their underlying theology too , could have no future . |
| 23 | Lear was beginning to find the strain of lithography — ‘ this lampblack & grease work ’ , as he later called it — intolerable , and had made up his mind to become a landscape painter . |
| 24 | ‘ Oi , gevald , ’ Joshua murmured to himself , unable to suppress the age-old cry of suffering and despair as he momentarily covered his eyes with his hand . |
| 25 | He 'd offered to swap stories about what had happened once they had each paired off at the party , but Graham was n't going to tell , and told Slater so as he carefully wrote her name by the side of the numbers : Sarah Fitch . |
| 26 | Yanto recalled talk at the Blue Boar about recent good runs of fish and was full of anticipation as he carefully picked his way across one of the rock bridges . |
| 27 | Marcus Felstead whistled a Christmas medley to himself as he carefully packed his suitcase . |
| 28 | Now that virtue could be acknowledged in the toddler as he freely followed his own natural pursuits and interests — not excluding the exploration of his own body-the ground was finally prepared for an acceptance of babies ' desires as needs in themselves : ‘ Babies want attention ; they probably need plenty of it ’ ( Children 's Bureau , 1945 ) . |
| 29 | Shiona writhed against him as he simply held her tighter . |
| 30 | I offered to give him a game or two if he needed the practice but , as he soon told me , snooker training is a lot more complicated than that nowadays . |