Example sentences of "as he [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite exhausting , ’ said Max , almost bashfully , as he professionally pressed the flesh . |
| 2 | A student with a punk haircut and a goose ( husa in Czech ) strapped into his rucksack was greeted with applause all round as he insolently walked the length of Wenceslas Square . |
| 3 | He liked the softness of silk , the slippery feel of it under his hands as he slowly undressed a woman in a shadowed bedroom . |
| 4 | The act of writing can be difficult at times , but he predicts that he 'll soon become the first Parkinson 's Disease patient to abandon drugs altogether as he slowly leaves a life of disability behind him . |
| 5 | I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing but I got up and started towards him as he finally got the clip to slide into the gun and snick home . |
| 6 | The wait in the ironmonger 's and the noises of cars and motor bikes turning and revving in the street worsened the pressure at the back of his neck so that as he finally got the machine into his van and thought of the relief of reaching home and doing the mowing , black tadpoles shot across his vision , zigzagging through all dimensions . |
| 7 | Then , taking a deep breath , he began to talk , the words tumbling out of him as he finally admitted the truth . |
| 8 | Automatically she lifted her head and arms as he finally removed the flimsy barrier and she lay open to his gaze . |
| 9 | There was an unsettling intensity about his expression as he softly spoke the words ; an expression at odds with both his cheerful , mischievous look and with the scowl that usually accompanied his angry , impatient moods . |
| 10 | His last customer took the smile with him as he unwillingly left the warm room and limped back with chattering teeth to the unwelcoming flat at the top of the stone stairs . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 12 | Evans ascribed this seal to the Syro-Hittite class as he also did a specimen found at Vari , south of Athens on the Greek mainland . |
| 13 | He is obviously serious about it as he also has a 1926 3 litre Bentley which he is upgrading to 4.5 to race . |
| 14 | If the all-important win is achieved in the Berwickshire race , Stark will find himself uniquely double-handed , as he also has a stake in the national final of the £6,000 Land Rover Gentleman 's point-to-point championship at Towcester on 11 May . |
| 15 | The client is not voluntarily engaging in these proceedings but as he strongly denies the charges he has no option but to defend himself . |
| 16 | With his teeth teasing her nipples she was driven beyond argument as he skilfully peeled the costume lower , easing the material over the curve of her hips until the soft triangle of golden curls was unveiled at the junction of stomach and thighs . |
| 17 | ‘ Asked me to keep an eye on you , ’ he repeated mildly as he skilfully opened the bottle of wine . |
| 18 | The gradual putrefaction of his friend Jack ( Griffin Dunne ) is also precisely charted at each grisly reappearance , as he blithely brings the message that suicide is the only solution to the puzzled David . |
| 19 | He watched the old man as he carefully sniffed the wine , sipped it , rolled it around his palate . |
| 20 | Too shocked , too intensely angry to speak , she contemptuously passed the document to him with a hand that shook so much that he steadied it with his , an expression close to pity on his face as he carefully extracted the paper from her numb fingers . |
| 21 | Hayman asked , as he carefully placed the folder back in his desk drawer and double-locked it . |
| 22 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
| 23 | With relief she saw McGee descend to her rescue and she slipped into the background as he deftly took the Bishop 's coat . |
| 24 | Happy when they were together , when she was left alone she fretted , missing his presence and the way the light moved round his body as he enthusiastically used every inch of it to express the slightest emotion . |
| 25 | ‘ But yes , ’ he replied as he attentively opened the passenger door of his Skoda for her . |
| 26 | But most attention went to the largest elephant of all , a fifteen-foot-high inflatable which towered over MP Paddy Ashdown — only recently elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats — as he officially cut the green ribbon across the door of the Greenpeace-funded Stop Hinkley Centre . |
| 27 | Now he 'll be remembered as the hunt marshall who went too far … caught on video … as he delibrately pushed a protester into the path of a hunt vehicle . |
| 28 | But lucky Craig Harris escaped with bruises and minor burns after being thrown into the air as he accidently touched a live wire attached to overhead power cables . |
| 29 | The manager watched him as he wearily climbed the stairs . |
| 30 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |