Example sentences of "as he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minute later the phone rang and he snatched the receiver up , almost smiling as he heard the unmistakable gravelly voice of his old adversary . |
| 2 | The Doctor stepped back from the device as Petion entered , but his welcoming words died on his lips as he saw the liveried servant who followed Petion in , a machete held loosely and comfortably in his hand with the certainty of one who knows how to use it . |
| 3 | Crossley 's mouth dropped open as he saw the taller man pull a gun into view . |
| 4 | They are watching me , thought Rupert Stonebird , as he saw the two women walking rather too slowly down the road . |
| 5 | He stepped back a pace , smiling broadly as he saw the young woman who stood before him , looking slightly surprised . |
| 6 | Ross 's voice broke through her unhappy thoughts , his dark eyebrows raised as he saw the half-empty wine bottle on the low table in front of her . |
| 7 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
| 8 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 9 | He looked up desperately as he saw the other assassin now approach , his dagger raised , waiting to strike . |
| 10 | He held up a pacifying hand as he saw the other prepare for battle . |
| 11 | Guy 's mouth twisted into a wry smile , as he saw the anguished uncertainty in her eyes . |
| 12 | There was n't the faintest trace of pity in his face as he saw the defeated posture , just a glimmer of satisfaction that his own plans were starting to go well for a change . |
| 13 | Bodie entered the gallery and sat down next to Cowley , grimacing as he saw the open-heart operation below . |
| 14 | The blue eyes glittered mockingly as he saw the fierce colour rush up her face . |
| 15 | He smiled as he saw the beautiful face in front of him , and for a moment he felt happy . |
| 16 | She lifted her buttocks up into the air , taunting Vashinov as he saw the white sperm slide out from inside her . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ Connelly shouted as he saw the glowing rings and felt their heat . |
| 18 | Chen stood up , a cry coming to his lips as he saw the bright flash of a knife being drawn . |
| 19 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 20 | Abudah , Abudah , Abudah , the name jogged up and down in his mind as he passed the crumbling houses , the rusted railings , the impoverished trees and the occasional blank , black face at curtainless windows . |
| 21 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 22 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 23 | ‘ Coffee is it ? ’ asked the flying club barman as he observed the pensive expression on X 's face . |
| 24 | Abandoning herself to the overpowering intoxication of his embrace , she parted her lips beneath his as he ravished the inner sweetness of her mouth . |
| 25 | Mr Tom Jones , the pelvic thrust , has started the new year as he finished the old . |
| 26 | Senator Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz , founder and leader of the right-wing Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) , was shot at point-blank range by two gunmen as he left the Catholic University in Santiago , where he had been giving a law lecture , on April 1 . |
| 27 | Newall was flanked by two officers armed with semi-automatic rifles as he left the Moorish castle that serves as the Rock 's jail for the opening of extradition proceedings . |
| 28 | As he left the underground car park , the driver of the black Mercedes parked in the shadows of a driveway opposite pulled out into the road , and followed the Golf Corbio at a safe distance . |
| 29 | He would touch the menacing batons very gingerly , withdrawing his fingers sharply from their hardness and flinching as he imagined the solid clump sound as a baton descended on someone 's skull . |
| 30 | Trent almost laughed with relief as he imagined the six-foot-four Customs officer at the wheel , empty pipe jammed between his teeth . |