Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock , who like Mr Foot is an MP for a south Wales constituency and came to the leadership from the left of the party , described his mentor yesterday as unique and irreplaceable : ‘ Michael is as fit and fiery as ever . |
| 2 | He was off-balance , his defences down as Ward drew back his right arm and slammed that gloved hand straight into the sallow face . |
| 3 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 4 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 5 | Gina ran her bike over his foot viciously as she went out through the narrow hall . |
| 6 | Whitlock used his personal ID card to activate the lift and tapped his foot apprehensively as he waited for it to arrive . |
| 7 | He gets his money back as soon as all the units are sold . |
| 8 | and he 's shaved his tash off as well and he 's always had that tash ever since I 've been there , it was really funny |
| 9 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 10 | I , I think he 's drawing into his shell there as regards friends outside the family . |
| 11 | Charlemagne used his womenfolk indirectly as safety-valves for the resentments of male kin , and directly as props to his own authority . |
| 12 | Kirov checked his watch carefully as he tuned the set to Voice of America . |
| 13 | He looked at his watch pointedly as they met . |
| 14 | Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood . |
| 15 | Stepping forward to the front of the jungle set , actor William Russell places himself so that the windflow from a small cooling fan falls on his face , ruffling his hair slightly as Ian Chesterton remarks on the slight breeze blowing over this exotic world . |
| 16 | He gave his scalp a good scratch , then smoothed his hair down as best he could and twisted the longer bits at the back into a coil which he stuffed inside his collar . |
| 17 | Santerre apparently did not go round his estates yesterday as he claimed . |
| 18 | They fired through the windows of his bungalow home as he watched television . |
| 19 | Ian Lawrence runs his kitchen just as he would a hotel |
| 20 | He lit up a cigarette and moved his mouth around as he inhaled as if chewing the flavour of the smoke . |
| 21 | You could see he 'd stuck invisible tape over his mouth so as not to cry . |
| 22 | ‘ And I do n't want to — ’ He cut off his words abruptly as the outer door opened . |
| 23 | ‘ How do you find yourself now , my dear wife ? ’ said the locksmith , taking a chair near his wife ( who had resumed her book ) , and rubbing his knees hard as he made the inquiry . |
| 24 | Her skirt had ridden up and she clung to his shoulders convulsively as she yielded to the sweet torment of his long fingers stroking over her thighs . |
| 25 | As it is , he 's put off his fishing so as to entertain you — ’ |
| 26 | LIVERPOOL soccer manager Graeme Souness went for a drive with his girlfriend yesterday as he continued his recovery from a triple heart by-pass operation . |
| 27 | Slit-eyed against the blinding rain , he hurled his weight forward as he powered up a ridge , the rear wheel tearing at shale and mud . |
| 28 | Cranston tightened his lips , blinking his eyes furiously as he always did when the tears threatened to return . |
| 29 | " My God I " Mr Dass cried , screwing his eyes up as though seeking to peer into the boy 's brain . |
| 30 | She knew it sounded unconvincing and she could read the continued disbelief in his eyes even as she spoke , but it was n't right , the way he was managing to give a nasty twist to everything she said . |