Example sentences of "as he [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 2 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 3 | Following on this sixth behind Gold Options , he ran in the Troytown Chase at Navan but showed little as he finished down the field behind Roberts Rhapsody . |
| 4 | She thought he appeared nervous as he wound down the window . |
| 5 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 6 | JACKO kept fuming police waiting for nearly an hour as he went on a midnight shopping spree — for new toys . |
| 7 | I did n't even look up as he went up the ramp into the street , so I 'm still not sure when he passed out of the garden and into the rest of the world . |
| 8 | She watched him through her fingers as he went down the garden and bent over the hole . |
| 9 | As he went down the avenue her figure in its sky-blue dress was framed in the driving mirror , an indelible imprint . |
| 10 | small wheel , you know , with a white horse he came , you know on er granite cobbles horses hooves , er he went to the bottom along this circle to turn round as he came back every door were open and we and er heads out , they thought it was a fu , you know , horse |
| 11 | I rousted Thessy out of his bed with a cup of tea , then went to my own bed as he took over the wheel . |
| 12 | The following day it was revealed that Bering had chipped a bone in a knee during the race , but such was the power of his acceleration as he took up the running that he could hardly have been affected until the very final stages . |
| 13 | Barbados had witnessed a rather different Hanif a year earlier as he took out a 16-hour 10-minute lease on the crease and sculpted a monumental 337 against Worrell and Co . |
| 14 | Do you have to ? ’ she snarled at him as he took out a cigarette . |
| 15 | ‘ Hello Son , ’ said Bert fondly , as he took out the inevitable packet of Woodbines and offered one to Yanto . |
| 16 | What was odd , thought Twoflower as he strolled down a wide flight of stairs and kicked up billowing clouds of silver dust motes , was that the tunnels here were much wider . |
| 17 | The Duke had cause for worry , yet as he strolled down the rue Royale he was forced to put a brave face on the desperate odds lest his enemies took courage from his despair.The Duke could also cling to one strong hope , namely that his scratch army would not fight Napoleon alone , but alongside Prince Blücher 's Prussians . |
| 18 | Newry were without the services of Erroll Lutton as he sweats out a three match suspension , but the return of Stephen Garvey and the addition of Ritchie Nummy to Newry 's back line-up certainly seemed to work well . |
| 19 | Police say he only survived because he did n't hit anything as he rolled down an embankment . |
| 20 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 21 | His heart hammered as he choked out the words : ‘ Drowning … . |
| 22 | HAMILTON PARK has always been one of Jack Berry 's happiest hunting grounds , and the Cockerham-based trainer was in his customary bubbly mood as he brought off a 15-1 double yesterday at the track 's final meeting of 1992 . |
| 23 | He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away . |
| 24 | Reporters and police rushed for cover , watching Janotte as he ran up the banks of a nearby gully . |
| 25 | ‘ Must be a moral there somewhere , ’ he mused , as he ran up the gangplank . |
| 26 | The cavalry officer pushed a hand through his long golden hair as he ran up the house steps . |
| 27 | ‘ Silly cow , ’ he breathed , as he ran down the bank into the yard , ‘ she 'll probably go cold on me while I 'm buggering about over here . ’ |
| 28 | As he sorted out the porter with amazingly fluent Spanish , Perdita noticed he was wearing a bomber jacket with US Open printed on the back . |
| 29 | The gunman looked around him wildly and the crowd parted as he darted up a narrow alleyway . |
| 30 | As he leaped down the stair he was shouting for Farquhar Neas , and whisky to take a foul taste from his mouth . |