Example sentences of "as he [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he applied it to Putt 's body the sickening stench of burning flesh rose into the air and one of the gipsy men uttered a faint sound of revulsion . |
| 2 | It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there . |
| 3 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 4 | His hand lashed out to grip her arm so tightly it hurt , as he meant it to . |
| 5 | As he swung it into Charing Cross Road he nearly collided with another car . |
| 6 | Cadfael stooped and picked it up , and the thicker end , broken and dangling , shed a fluttering debris of tindery flakes as he swung it in his hand . |
| 7 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |
| 8 | His face was beaded with perspiration and as he wiped it with his handkerchief he dislodged a few locks of his heavily greased hair . |
| 9 | So did Sean as he took it from Carmella . |
| 10 | So it was a short story as he told it to himself , of an English runaway crossing the frontier from Kuwait , and failing in spite of many beatings to satisfy his interrogators until the arrival of the Colonel at the Public Security base at Basra . |
| 11 | You will remember ; but here is his story , as he told it to me on my last visit . |
| 12 | Barnett steadied the heavy tumbler of neat whisky with both hands as he brought it to his lips . |
| 13 | At the beginning of the novel we are reasonably sympathetic towards Pip but as the novel progresses we become less sympathetic towards him , as he becomes a snob , embarrassed of his family in Joe , and we feel that he does n't deserve sympathy as he brought it on himself . |
| 14 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 15 | It unrolled as he tugged it across the bedroom floor , and inside was the blood-soaked corpse of Maria Shill . |
| 16 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 17 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 18 | And , as he describes it in a very striking page , suddenly had what he calls a , a very acute sense of unendurable individual loneliness of man , the acute , an acute sense of the pathos of the situation of the human individual , somehow inherently lonely , shut up within himself , undefended , against the blows of fate . |
| 19 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 20 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 21 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 22 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 23 | As he raised it to his lips he saw that it was brimming with drowned black insects . |
| 24 | But as he raised it to his lips the windows flashed bright again , and the heavens gave forth another stream of rumbling abuse . |
| 25 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 26 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 27 | As a keen walker and lover of the countryside Hardy would surely approve of how West Dorset has been preserved to be enjoyed by people today as he enjoyed it in his own time . |
| 28 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 29 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 30 | La democrasserie , as he called it in a letter to Taine . |