Example sentences of "him as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter . |
| 2 | They follow him as he goes through the sky and when he leaves the sky they look for him all night . |
| 3 | And she was aware that the same thought had occurred to him as he observed , ‘ If your own car has suffered any damage in the incident , I 'm afraid it 's rather hard to identify . |
| 4 | She did not get up and come towards him as he got out , but waited until he had crossed the grass to sit down beside her on the wooden seat . |
| 5 | The rain continued to beat down upon him as he ran across the dark and sodden park just before midnight . |
| 6 | Bumping and alarmed shouts rose behind him as he ran out in ecstasy , tumbling heels over head down the last twists of the stair , to tell his mother he was a castle ghillie now ! |
| 7 | Flashes of light exploded around him as he ran . |
| 8 | Neither impatient nor inattentive , she had a positive gift for remaining still and alert , her large brown eyes fixed upon him as he reconstructed those distant events , willing him to remember and recall every incident , however minor , every remark , however trivial . |
| 9 | The bust of Gibbon , purchased in Geneva during the headmaster 's first post-war vacation , sneered down on him as he proceeded . |
| 10 | Sometimes , if the lights had been left on , and I was unable to sleep , I 'd look across to Tom and feel great sorrow to see that fine man lying on the floor in a bleak underground room , with a rough blanket over his legs and cockroaches crawling over him as he slept . |
| 11 | In the early hours of February 16 last year Abram broke into her home through the bathroom window and when she disturbed him as he searched for money for drink and to have his hair cut he killed her , Mr Burke said . |
| 12 | She pretended to be engrossed in exploring the room , and managed to keep a foot or so away from him as he followed , making her uncomfortably aware of the wall of his body close behind her while she ran her hands over the antique furniture with an assumed interest . |
| 13 | The words , both exclamation and prayer , were forced out of him as he reached the bend in the road and came on the village of Granard . |
| 14 | All heads turned to watch him as he reached into his pocket and took out three multicoloured balls . |
| 15 | She watched him as he reached for his brandy glass and drained it , her eyes fixed on his dark profile , drinking him in . |
| 16 | Lewis was waiting for him as he reached the road again . |
| 17 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
| 18 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 19 | The Keeper picked up the cage and backed out , his helper careful to close the gate quickly behind him as he came out . |
| 20 | She rushed after him , almost bumping into him as he came to an abrupt halt in the kitchen doorway . |
| 21 | Alarm rose in response to the dark , angry glitter her defiant claim brought to his eyes , and as he began to move towards her , Maria also moved , whirling past him as he came round the desk . |
| 22 | Councillor Rodgers said , ‘ They are interfering with the democratic process in this by-election and seeking to buy political influence with what amounts to bribes ’ , and noted the offer was personally embarrassing for him as he negotiated as a union official with the companies over workers ' pay and conditions . |
| 23 | The bus had passed him as he left the house ; there was n't another for twenty minutes and no time to wait , only run , heading for Nails 's house , praying he would be there . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's such a jerk , ’ she remarked , remembering him as he left the breakfast table clad in the dark , light-weight suit which hung uneasily between an older idea of what was appropriate to the businessman and the current notion that , since it was no longer altogether cool to be a businessman , the person in the fast lane to wealth should appear relaxed and unconstrained . |
| 25 | She shuffled after him as he left the house , almost too exhausted now to put one foot in front of the other . |
| 26 | He ran quickly out of the laboratory , and I watched him as he left the island in his boat and sailed away across the sea . |
| 27 | The writer Farag Fudah died on June 8 from gunshot wounds inflicted by two Islamic fundamentalist gunmen who attacked him as he left his office in the Heliopolis , Cairo . |
| 28 | Colonel Lomax contrived to bump into him as he left the booth . |
| 29 | Amiss took out of his pocket the hip-flask that Pooley had thrust upon him as he left . |
| 30 | I saw him as he left the table last night . ’ |