Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 2 | My heart sank ( again , not literally ! ) as I heard him say , ‘ Right then , I 'm sure you 'll work with Brian today , wo n't you David ? ’ |
| 3 | Everything became bitingly clear to me as soon as I saw him turn round sharply and stare at me . |
| 4 | That 's Michael Medleycote , who 's the Chief Executive of the British Tourist Authority and responsible , as you heard him say , for encouraging people to come and visit this country . |
| 5 | She spun into the bathroom and locked the door , smiling to herself as she heard him leap from the bed , too late to catch her . |
| 6 | Claudia leapt off the settee and darted to the door , only to stop as she heard him laugh . |
| 7 | As she heard him unzip his trousers , she whispered thickly , ‘ Yes … |
| 8 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 9 | Suddenly , they were at the world 's end , her body convulsing in astonished and savage joy , as she heard him cry out hoarsely in his own release . |
| 10 | That was how it was going to be between them , just as she made him sleep on the floor beside their honeymoon bed in the Ritz . |
| 11 | Her hopes that he might leave something to chance and throw her the opportunity to make her own way back faded as she saw him lock up and pocket the key . |
| 12 | Watching from the window , Hilary grinned as she saw him hurry towards the driver , and only when he 'd climbed into the car did she move . |
| 13 | As soon as she saw him look down , she made a sideways dive between a couple of stalls and crossed to the opposite side of the street . |
| 14 | She dropped the saucepan as she saw him raise the pistol and aim at her . |
| 15 | She felt his fingers hook into either side of her panties , and as she felt him pull them down her body she closed her eyes . |
| 16 | She laughed as she felt him relax . |
| 17 | ‘ Stop it ! ’ she hissed as she felt him begin to pull her towards him . |
| 18 | No , Caroline thought , as she let him lead her down to the ancient ground , no , it had n't . |
| 19 | She finished undoing it for him and slipped out of the dress , and as she let him raise her petticoat her eyes strayed again to the patch on the ceiling . |
| 20 | As Archbishop he was indecisive ; there were contemporaries who could have provided stouter leadership , as they let him know . |
| 21 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 22 | He looked suspicious at first , and so did the Japanese waiters as they helped him pull his tuba case through the very narrow doorway . |
| 23 | He wished he had n't spotted it as it made him think of this morning and going round the house in Hill View Road , and the idea his Mum and Dad had about moving . |
| 24 | When I pushed it back , as it made him look so hot , the skin of his forehead was burning . |
| 25 | It 's a terrible thing to say , but I think the lad may have pulled the iron over Damien 's foot as he let him go . ’ |