Example sentences of "as he [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his portable equipment — weapon , tool bag and hook and line — the weight , as he shuffles out of the ICP , is up to about 70 lb . |
| 2 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 3 | You close the door , take off your glasses because your vision is so distorted , and kick him in the head ; far too softly , then still not hard enough , as he scrabbles round on the floor , one hand at his crotch and the other at his head , making a spitting , wheezing noise . |
| 4 | HE 'S THE TOPS : Reggae star Apache looks good in shorts , too , as he lines up with models Polly ( left ) and Cookie |
| 5 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 6 | International : Defiant exile held as he flies back to Malawi |
| 7 | As long as he keeps out of the washing machine , the vet says Pristine Priskin can expect a long and happy life . |
| 8 | That depressing truth is , alas , one that Mikhail Gorbachev still refuses to accept , as he stumbles around in a trap set by Lenin two-thirds of a century ago . |
| 9 | His face bearing the ruby-red signature of four sets of young Mambo princess lips , Antonio Banderas grins sheepishly as he stumbles out of a Beverly Hills hotel bedroom . |
| 10 | Right Said Fred singer Fred Fairbrass points it out as he meets up with ex-Brookside star Annie Miles . |
| 11 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 12 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 13 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |
| 14 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 15 | Midfielder Ferguson , indeed , has outshone most of his more experienced rivals as he fills in for injured Bryan Robson , as the expense of England 's Neil Webb . |
| 16 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |
| 17 | His eyes are wide as he gazes around in a kind of apprehension . |
| 18 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 19 | In the next step of the argument , he then said , well , religion is a transference , and therefore a form of infantilism , so now he seems to be criticizing religion , but if he 's criti criticizing religion by saying it 's an illusion , surely he 's jeopardizing civilization , because the danger , as he points out in the book , if you take religion away from people , you say , look , this is just an illusion , God does n't exist . |
| 20 | His success and the nature of the job mean they lead a glamorous lifestyle , although as he gets up at 4.15am and goes to bed at 9pm weekdays , Simon might not agree . |
| 21 | As he gets out of his chair , I ask him if it 's true what they say about short men . |
| 22 | Graham refused to run with me after that and in India , as he builds up for his first attempt at the London Marathon next year , he can find some other mug to tramp the streets of Delhi or Bombay with him . |
| 23 | ‘ Everything makes sounds , ’ Gaver explains as he sits down at his Macintosh . |
| 24 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 25 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 26 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
| 27 | It 's this thought that remains uppermost in the mind of coach Ian Birtwell as he looks back on those sixteen memorable days in October when Canada came charging so boldly from the ranks of the ‘ possibles ’ to achieve quarter-final status . |
| 28 | CLIFF Richard looks like he could use a Summer Holiday as he limbers up for his next sell-out UK tour . |
| 29 | We know that Jack is full of himself as he shows off about the fact that he can sing the top C♯ in a scale , which is very impractical . |
| 30 | ‘ Happy Christmas , ma'am , ’ the postman says and , as he steps back into the darkness , she notices he 's wearing gloves . |