Example sentences of "as he [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watch Perry 's eyes narrow as he handles the needle , his coat still on . |
| 2 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 3 | I 've read Mike 's copy carefully , and as he tells the story of Briant 's explanation of what he 's doing , I ca n't see any other way to treat it . |
| 4 | And as he tells the story of one Irish politician who was emblematic of the past — Fianna Fáil TD Sean Doherty — he strips away the layers of fiction and delusion underpinning both Doherty and his critics to touch the pulse of an Ireland distorted by the rhetoric of the newsroom and debating chamber . |
| 5 | The word appears twice in Dostoevsky 's letter to Katkov outlining Crime and Punishment , in the phrase ‘ unsteadiness of ideas ’ — which is natural since a drama of reflection is about to unfold : thinking is Raskolnikov 's work , as he tells the maid Nastasya . |
| 6 | THE chasing bunch have their eyes on the bend ( top ) while Alexandre Nadobenko takes the applause as he crosses the finish line |
| 7 | CHRISTIE has time to raise his arms in triumph as he crosses the line for his 100-metres win — with clear daylight between him and the pack . |
| 8 | Robert Layton will be flying at about 2,000 feet to stay below commercial flight routes , low enough to run into bad weather , or his worst nightmare , fog as he crosses the Channel . |
| 9 | Then , as he opens the portfolio : ‘ Good Christ ! ’ |
| 10 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 11 | The noise stops as he opens the door . |
| 12 | The other is the words that come from the Pastor as he opens the bible to read . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't stand all that c**p ! ’ says David as he rejects the notion that growing up in Glasgow 's East End was hard . |
| 14 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
| 15 | At first this premise may seem difficult to accept , but as he maps the argument it becomes more and more plausible . |
| 16 | NOTHING really corking there , in a snippet from the forthcoming diaries of Alan Clark , a former minister of state for defence procurement , as he describes the intrigue surrounding the fall of Thatcher . |
| 17 | This local Swaggart , who has tears in his eyes as he preaches the gospel , is tormented by the rows of large , bobbing girls in front of him as they sing the bouncy gospel renditions of traditional hymns . |
| 18 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 19 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 20 | As God drives back the waters so that they can cross in safety , and as he sends the wall of water rushing down upon Pharaoh 's forces , Israel learns the truth of Moses ' words : " The Lord will fight for you , and you have only to be still " ( 14:14 ) . |
| 21 | The fantasy had by the reader of Penthouse may not involve any beliefs that real women behave as he imagines the woman on the page does . |
| 22 | PRIDE and joy shine in his craggy face as he cuddles the baby close . |
| 23 | It is clear in talking to Walter , as he nears the end of his career , that while he has greatly enjoyed his job working with students , he is saddened by the fact that prospects for young people are not very promising at the present time . |
| 24 | LOOK , NO HANDS : Bryan plays the pool fool for little Princess Eugenie as he takes the plunge without even a glance over his shoulder to see if there 's any trouble lurking |
| 25 | As he takes the mobile from me he says , ‘ That 's my best boy , ’ and I feel my legs do a little dance . |
| 26 | the iron crunches as he takes the apple … |
| 27 | Mr Robinson could have a wide brief as well , so long as he keeps the chancellor 's confidence . |
| 28 | So long as he speaks the truth it can t be folly — that 's what you 're going to say , is n't it ? |
| 29 | His face falls as he reads the heading of the notice . |
| 30 | Sometimes he imagines the little knot of concentration between his father 's eyebrows as he reads the letter aloud , and his mother 's smile hidden behind her hand . |