Example sentences of "as he [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 2 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 3 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 4 | Ferrari argued that proper procedures had not been followed in Portugal and that Mansell had been unable to hear the instructions on his radio as he travelled at 170 mph past the pits . |
| 5 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 6 | The real reason was that he felt at ease ; he was no longer a figure of fun or an eyesore , he had a place — just as he did at first with Sien . |
| 7 | Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to . |
| 8 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |
| 9 | And in that moment , as he winced at this new casualty , he lost the advantage that the suddenness of his irruption into the gun chamber had given him . |