Example sentences of "as he [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's more , as soon as he heard of your problem , Direct Delivery 's manager immediately visited your home and , although it was agreed that the damage was purely accidental , as an act of goodwill toured the shops in Lisburn to try and find you a replacement . |
| 2 | After all , the illegal trade , as he knew to his immediate , though expertly hidden , advantage , was very profitable indeed . |
| 3 | ‘ We decided that the only course was to run away to marry at Gretna Green , because her guardian , as soon as he knew of my interest , first tried to get my apprenticeship broken and then announced that his son would marry Catherine on the day of her twenty-first birthday — two weeks from now . |
| 4 | In Vincent 's era , as he knew in his nerves and on his skin as well as through his eyes , the new creators were the inventors of speed and progress . |
| 5 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 6 | The silver water shatters under her feet , the child bounces as he rides on her breast , and she no longer hears Sycorax , only the pulse of the sea as it breaks in frills on the smooth and shiny sand , the splash of her stride and the drumming of her heart as she makes for the forest to the north , her back turned to the bay where the English ship rides at anchor , where the sea battle will take place . |
| 7 | As regards the incompetent child , only his parents or legal guardian may speak for him , and then only for as long as he remains under their control or until majority at 18 years of age . |
| 8 | PETER CRANMER , who captained England at rugby and Warwickshire at cricket , is showing the same courage and cheerfulness to ill-health as he displayed during his distinguished sporting career . |
| 9 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 10 | " Irish , " she said at once , surprising him again as he left on his mission . |
| 11 | He had already admired Animal Farm which , as he tells in his diary ( 31 August 1945 ) , he read promptly on its first appearance to spite his cousin Claud Cockburn , who as a loyal Communist Party man had warned him against reading Trotskyite literature . |
| 12 | David Button , a father-of-six , was knocked down as he cycled from his home in Hedgerley , Bucks . |
| 13 | The fields which Miss Lockwood owned are also left to you , Sara , with the provision that Mr. Preston must have the use of them for as long as he requires for his horses . " |
| 14 | Having made all kinds of good resolutions after Ladakh , he fell out of them as soon as he returned to his usual academic haunts in Oxford and New York ; painfully , he tried again . |
| 15 | It was born of fear for her grandfather , he thought as he returned to his butchery of the President 's shotgun . |
| 16 | A neat arrangement , to be sure , from his point of view , as he returned to his all-male environment once more . |
| 17 | My earliest recollection of Fred was when , as a schoolboy , I watched spellbound as he returned to his home in Belfast holding aloft the old Claret Jug , signifying his victory at Hoylake in 1947 . |
| 18 | ‘ I know the feeling , ’ he agreed with that fascinating little indent beside his mouth as he returned with her case . |
| 19 | Mr Trotter breathed heavily as he brushed past his wife and stomped heavily up the stairs . |
| 20 | He no longer felt as confident and secure as he had on his arrival . |
| 21 | Jackie retired only once that year because of his engine and won six races , just as he had in his previous championship in 1969 . |
| 22 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 23 | Then as he went towards his car she stiffened suddenly . |
| 24 | ‘ I know nothing about them hedgerow heathens , ’ he snapped as he went on his way , ‘ an' if you take my advice you 'll watch your pockets . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll appeal to his worst then , ’ he laughed as he went on his way . |
| 26 | He chuckled as he went on his way . |
| 27 | It was all so innocent but Fred 's face had darkened and he had become quiet as he went about his work , the occasional grunt of irritation replacing the tuneless whistling and humming that usually emanated from the kitchen . |
| 28 | The orderly shrugged as he went about his task of switching off Company Shock Trooper ( Third Class ) Jason Curtis Dommer 's life support machine . |
| 29 | One morning I saw Mrs Goreng 's chauffeur grinning as he went about his chore of servicing the jeep . |
| 30 | As he went into his box Wayne was still pawing his belly . |