Example sentences of "but as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , Ross ( 1978 ) has consistently argued the case for arts education to be centred on the philosophy of aesthetic development , but as he acknowledges : |
| 2 | She was still pondering this , as well as thinking about Faye Hamilton and the long difficult journey through pregnancy that lay ahead , when she became aware that Dr Russell was laughing to himself — just a quiet chuckle at first , but as he realised she was watching him and saw her bemused expression the sound grew to a full-throated and resonant guffaw . |
| 3 | But as he raised it to his lips the windows flashed bright again , and the heavens gave forth another stream of rumbling abuse . |
| 4 | You may have to help him at first , but as he progresses , he can tackle more complicated puzzles . |
| 5 | But as he drove himself into a last titanic effort to surface into the light , the pain began to divide and concentrate itself in three separate areas of his body ; his head , his right arm and his chest . |
| 6 | But as he progressed on into East Prussia , towards Tannenberg , the full impact and consequence of the Depression and partition were borne upon him , and so also the full potential of the Nazi Party was impressed upon him . |
| 7 | Different records might call the same man husbandman and yeoman , but as he progressed , the latter description would be used with increasing consistency . |
| 8 | If there is enough snow to make a really big snowman , he may be as tall as Mr A. on the first day , but as he melts , he will shrink to be as tall as Miss B. and then as small as the smallest child , until he finally disappears . |
| 9 | But as he said to me , why do n't you go welding . |
| 10 | Cornelius found the habit mildly annoying , but as he prided himself that he could get through any interview with Mr Yarrow without uttering a single word , he refrained from comment . |
| 11 | At first this premise may seem difficult to accept , but as he maps the argument it becomes more and more plausible . |
| 12 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 13 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 14 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 15 | Most of the staff began to fall on this with cries of delight , but as he looked around , Amiss saw two sad brown faces at the other end of the table . |
| 16 | They seemed to have landed away from the red paralysis , but as he looked around he could see the castle being encroached upon from all directions by the strange weed . |
| 17 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 18 | Crossing the bridge on his way home , he thought he would stop and give Mr Hellyer a piece of his Mars Bar , but as he got nearer , he saw Mr Hellyer was gone . |
| 19 | But as he got older this , that was in the family though , my sister was like that , Olga , the one what used to be with us . |
| 20 | Pam 's voice still urged him onward , encouraging him , but as he struggled upwards towards it , the darkness was closing in thickly around him , making it progressively harder to see or breathe . |
| 21 | When Benedick mocks love he does so in prose , naturally enough ( Much Ado , II.iii.6–36 ) , but as he overhears Don Pedro , Claudio , and Balthasar in verse , beginning the plot against him , we are conscious of the gap between mockery and romance . |
| 22 | That first time , he could n't be sure , it was after midnight , too dark to tell , her belly and her legs lay like patches of moonlight on the ground , he could n't be sure , but as he lifted away from her he thought he smelt that rich , metallic smell . |
| 23 | Gandhi claims to be a Sanātani Hindu himself , but as he points out , his religion is not exclusive nor is it missionary in the ordinary sense of the term . |
| 24 | But as he points out , the Province has much to offer : the most highly qualified school leavers in the country and — with wages on average 85% of the mainland , but mortgages at a third — potentially one of the highest standards of living . |
| 25 | When he does that again but as he keeps doing it he gets louder and louder and the bang goes louder and louder . |
| 26 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 27 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 28 | But as he thought of it , Charles knew the explanation was inadequate . |
| 29 | But as he took the field in the second Test against the West Indies , all eyes were on his behaviour . |
| 30 | But as he took his three lifelong friends for a drive , the car veered over a dual carriageway and hit a bus head-on . |