Example sentences of "as he [vb -s] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he struggles to banish the threat of relegation from the Premier League , 57-year-old Clough is beginning to show outward signs of a lifetime in football management . |
| 2 | BILLY Connolly 's got his out-of-work wife Pam a job in the circus — as long as he agrees to tear the tickets . |
| 3 | Bjorn Borg vacated the courts long ago , and though the 37-year-old Jimmy Connors will continue to swing his racket with gusto when the new Association of Tennis Professionals Tour gets underway in January , Lendl , Wilander and McEnroe remain to test the 21-year-old Becker as he endeavours to convince the rankings computer that he is the top man . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman fails to understand the importance of the patients charter , as he fails to understand the reforms . |
| 5 | Even from the kerb in the gloom the guard 's shrugs and humorously uplifted eyes are visible as he declines to telephone the duty officer , ring a British Committee office empty at this time of night , break the sacred sleep of anyone else on the telephone list . |
| 6 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |
| 7 | Hendrix 's vocals had an almost hypnotic effect , an effect which Randy Hansen has captured with uncanny accuracy , as surely as he has emulated the sound of Jimi 's guitar . |
| 8 | It obviously took the photographer , Arthur Richardson , some time to set up his equipment as he has attracted the attention of a few of the locals . |
| 9 | I know this will be unpopular especially as he has won the League but I just feel he does n't handle ALL his players well . |
| 10 | Mr Kinnock 's soft shoe shuffle , as he prepares to court the Liberal Democrats in the event of a hung Parliament , is an earnest of what could lie ahead . |
| 11 | ST HELENS ' Test prop Kevin Ward faces a bleak Christmas as he prepares to meet the Rugby League 's Disciplinary Committee on Wednesday . |
| 12 | Goneril and Regan know their father 's failings well and act as he wishes to obtain the desired results . |
| 13 | North Adams mayor John Barrett , who chairs MASSMoCA 's Cultural Development Commission , interprets this as license to take as much time as he needs to find the additional funds . |
| 14 | For example , tap your toddler 's hand sharply , with an incisive ‘ No ! ’ , just as he moves to touch the electric fire . |
| 15 | I it 's not all of them , there 's a one particular one , which is actually causing s concern to the erm to the p p I , I think perhaps what we need to do s is v people who are interested in this work actually speak to Steve as he starts to contract the work out . |
| 16 | Coleridge even dares to take on the subject of the workings of Nature , as it were , as he attempts to describe the power and intensity of the earth breathing ; his reference to the ‘ ceaseless turmoil seething , as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing ’ shows the poet getting almost as close to the heart of creativity as it is possible to do . |
| 17 | Canizares , 45 , second and fourth on his last two tour outings in the Catalan and Portuguese Opens , is the only player under par on 212 , four under , and is five strokes clear of the field as he attempts to emulate the millionaire feats of Severiano Ballesteros , Jose-Maria Olazabal and Jose Rivero . |
| 18 | ‘ A lot of families will say that as soon as he 's got the dowry you 'll get the girl back . |
| 19 | Check that you have the positioning right and encourage your baby to feed for as often and long as he wants to stimulate the flow . |
| 20 | In the opening stanza of Robert Frost 's 'stopping by woods ' a traveller begins a series of reflections as he stops to enjoy the sight of the snow falling upon the nearby woods . |
| 21 | LIEUTENANT ALEX Watts clenches his fist in anger as he remembers discovering the charred remains of a family slaughtered by Croatian fighters in Bosnia . |
| 22 | Careful planning and structured design play no part in the highly-acclaimed higgle-piggle garden of Connie Franks , says Tony Lord , as he tries to uncover the secret of her success |
| 23 | For his part the president , as he tries to get the cooperation he needs , will not restrict himself to offering inducements . |