Example sentences of "as he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then he was striding away from her , his boots echoing on the wooden boards as he made for the stairs . |
| 32 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 33 | Penry smiled faintly as he made for the door . |
| 34 | His tongue hung from his mouth as he made for the south — and dust pothered up from his feet . |
| 35 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 36 | The 27-year-old , from Hornsey , north London , died in hospital after being attacked as he waited for a train with his brother at Finsbury Park Tube station . |
| 37 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 38 | Twenty-seven year old Alan Dobbs from Tredworth in Gloucester collapsed at Schipol airport as he waited for a flight to Briatin . |
| 39 | A POLICEMAN was injured in his patrol car yesterday in an accident as he waited for a nuclear weapons convoy to pass through Glasgow , writes Alan Forbes . |
| 40 | Now I could hear the throb of impatience in his voice as he waited for the curtain to go up . |
| 41 | He shivered in shop doorways as he waited for the traffic lights to give him green . |
| 42 | The idea of this power , this energy , came to him as he waited for the traffic lights to change so that he could cross . |
| 43 | ‘ I know you speak Russian , ’ Myeloski said as he waited for the Englishman , ‘ but it would be better if we spoke only English . |
| 44 | He leaned forward , his forearms resting on his knees , his eyes riveted to the portable radio at his feet as he waited for the pitcher 's next delivery . |
| 45 | As he waited for the executioner , he was dressed in the blue suit that he had worn on his last public appearance . |
| 46 | He brushed a speck of dust from his sleeve as he waited for the silence he required . |
| 47 | As he waited for the noise to die down , Forester looked around the room . |
| 48 | He shifted from one foot to the other as he waited for the door to be answered . |
| 49 | Less than ten yards away from Harry as he waited for the Swindon train , the same man stood examining paperbacks on a bookstall . |
| 50 | The man hesitated , his eyes flicking nervously from side to side as he waited for the magic . |
| 51 | And to crown it all , ‘ What a charming companion you have been , ’ Ven commented across the table as he waited for the waiter to bring him their bill . |
| 52 | As he waited for the ambulance , the injured man bravely signed autographs for the children . |
| 53 | Team captain Linford Christie will lead from the front as he goes for an unprecedented fourth successive 100m crown , while Colin Jackson ( 110m hurdles ) and Eamonn Martin ( 10,000m ) are also selected as defending champions . |
| 54 | His beak was like the tip Of a rose thorn As he pecked for the cheese . |
| 55 | Her attacker got a 2 month suspended sentence ; the same as he got for the original theft . |
| 56 | It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister . |
| 57 | " But there was a time long ago when the cassowary could fly as well as the bower-bird. " the old man rumbled as he reached for a sweetcorn in the cinders . |
| 58 | ‘ That 's where you 're wrong , ’ I said as he reached for a pen . |
| 59 | ‘ Ice ? ’ he enquired , as he reached for a glass and Shiona seated herself in one of the armchairs . |
| 60 | Maggie braced herself as he reached for the top of the blanket , which he then drew down to reveal a corpse 's face . |