Example sentences of "as he [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if on cue , the car-phone gave a discreet purr to punctuate Tom 's passionate sentence , and he snatched it up as he braked at traffic-lights which had just turned red . |
| 2 | Fireman John Peck grabbed the blade and wrestled it off the attacker as he lunged at colleagues . |
| 3 | And as he recovered at home , he opened up about the moment he thought his season was over . |
| 4 | In Canberra last week , he continued to blow as coldly as he had at Twickenham earlier this month and was disappointing , though whether he will be react positively to being dropped is a moot point . |
| 5 | Plumer determined to take the plateau in four meticulously planned stages ; he opted , as he had at Messines , at each stage to concentrate his effort , going for limited objectives with strong artillery support . |
| 6 | Listening to him , Thorkel Fóstri wondered , as he had at Scone , what Thorfinn thought of this , the first of the next generation of rulers . |
| 7 | A MOTORIST has been fined £50 for brushing his hair and admiring his looks as he drove at 50mph . |
| 8 | If One of them I found , loved He was an expert as he said at coupling vestibules . |
| 9 | Christian rubbed his chin as he looked at Seb and thought seriously about the plan he had put forward . |
| 10 | The young man was not pretending now , as he looked at Bathsheba 's beautiful , excited face . |
| 11 | Perhaps he was just imagining the undercurrent of nostalgia , he told himself as he looked at Cora-Beth 's flushed , excited face . |
| 12 | Simon Doggett 's face blanched as he looked at Sharpe 's frayed and blood-drenched uniform . |
| 13 | His tone gentled as he looked at Mrs Foster . |
| 14 | Now some of that bitterness was back as he looked at Teacher Peng . |
| 15 | Ben was grinning now as he looked at Millie , saying , ‘ Perhaps they 're goin' to adopt you . ’ |
| 16 | He felt foolish as he looked at Molly who was on all fours amongst the pine needles looking at him in open mouthed amazement . |
| 17 | Then the man spoke his first word in a very long time as he looked at Beth panting away . |
| 18 | The great parliamentarian , George Canning , became Prime Minister in 1827 , but only for four months , as he died at Chiswick House . |
| 19 | They were light ; he was aware of the fact even as he stared at Mrs Patten . |
| 20 | His face was a cold blank mask , only the eyes were alive as he stared at Ryan — and then , with one swift movement , he took his hand away so that Ryan crumpled to the floor . |
| 21 | Let's be fair , now ; I do n't expect it makes much difference to Mrs Morgan , or her cat , " Mr Smith said , and a small smile played over his lips as he glanced at Dan Ashton , who grunted and looked down at his feet while Smith continued , " whether you were joking or in deadly seriousness . " |
| 22 | Now , as he sits at home with his wife and children in their suburban house in Ealing , the revisionists are wandering the streets . |
| 23 | Vic smokes a second cigarette as he sits at stool , and scans the Daily Mail . |
| 24 | The religious officer 's artificial sapphire eyes glowed with an inner light as he gazed at Lexandro . |
| 25 | Perhaps he do n't moan as much there as he does at home ! |
| 26 | Then her heart sank as he grinned at Doreen . |
| 27 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |
| 28 | Someone employed on the Census in April was forced to resign after trying to sell life insurance as he called at homes in London to collect people 's forms ! |
| 29 | The librarian was grabbed as he worked at Woodhill Prison near Milton Keynes . |
| 30 | TODAY broke the news to him as he worked at Team Lotus 's offices in central London . |