Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gina ran her bike over his foot viciously as she went out through the narrow hall . |
| 4 | Whitlock used his personal ID card to activate the lift and tapped his foot apprehensively as he waited for it to arrive . |
| 5 | He gets his money back as soon as all the units are sold . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I , I think he 's drawing into his shell there as regards friends outside the family . |
| 8 | Kirov checked his watch carefully as he tuned the set to Voice of America . |
| 9 | He looked at his watch pointedly as they met . |
| 10 | Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They fired through the windows of his bungalow home as he watched television . |
| 14 | Ian Lawrence runs his kitchen just as he would a hotel |
| 15 | He lit up a cigarette and moved his mouth around as he inhaled as if chewing the flavour of the smoke . |
| 16 | You could see he 'd stuck invisible tape over his mouth so as not to cry . |
| 17 | As it is , he 's put off his fishing so as to entertain you — ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He managed to get his question in as he crossed the Hammersmith Flyover . |
| 21 | Bernice followed his gaze upwards as Cheryl began to speak . |
| 22 | The manager was advised to start by walking his zone so as to familiarize himself with it , and then ‘ scouts ’ would be sent out to call at homes whilst ‘ reliable boys ’ could be hired to ‘ politely deliver heralds ’ . |
| 23 | Cardiff turned to see Duvall loosening his overcoat slowly as he moved to draw level behind them as they watched the elevator doors . |
| 24 | He swung his body round as he fell . |
| 25 | He had been moving his body slightly as he came into the shot , and the club head was being thrown slightly off line . |
| 26 | Watin 's Directory gives his business there as the supply of ‘ verres colorés adaptés aux verres ordinaires ’ . |
| 27 | And he 'll keep his place tonight as Newcastle bid to establish their best start since the war with a Coca Cola Cup win at Mansfield . |
| 28 | Marcus rolled his sleeve down as they walked along . |
| 29 | Mr Gould said he was prepared to serve under Mr Smith as deputy and invited the Shadow Chancellor to put his name forward as well for the deputy leadership . |
| 30 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |