Example sentences of "soon as he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Quigley had made sure he had stopped hitting me as soon as he heard her on the stairs .
2 As soon as he heard it , Sikes called his white dog , put on his hat and left without saying goodbye to anyone .
3 But as soon as he heard it was in Hampstead , he smelt a rat .
4 The blindfolded man has to preempt an attack as soon as he feels it coming by blocking and striking lightly in the direction that he senses it is coming from .
5 If the razor was on top of the heap , he would have been cut as soon as he touched it .
6 As soon as he noticed them , Howard beckoned the Doctor , Ace and Petion over with a relieved expression , and introduced them to Colonel Mortimer of the USMC .
7 And yet soon as he died they were all there .
8 As soon as he received it , the holy man who now looked like a scarecrow gave most of it away .
9 They were his words and as soon as he said them , she knew she had won him to freedom .
10 When my husband takes his shirts off I have to wash them straight away — like he wears two shirts on Sunday and I wash them as soon as he takes them off .
11 It 'll be all right soon as he gets it . ’
12 In such a process the smart executive does not reveal a strategic solution ( even if he knows one ) as soon as he perceives it .
13 " You mean that as soon as he married I should be disinherited ? "
14 Then , when the owner returned , he would know who was responsible , and as soon as he contacted her she 'd be only too happy to provide him with details of the accident .
15 And it says in th , in , as you read through the record , as soon as he saw him he shouted with a shout that must have surprised the passers by , because , he hollered out to him he called out excitedly to him !
16 He ca n't have talked to them for long , as soon as he saw me coming he cleared off quick .
17 Ellen was showing Rickie Crowninshield all the elaborate electronic toys that only Ellen wholly understood ; the radios , radars , weatherfaxes and satellite receivers , and Rickie was being surprisingly attentive , but as soon as he saw me he scowled and clamped a pair of headphones over his ears as though to make sure that he did not have to hold any kind of conversation with me .
18 As soon as he saw her again , however , he knew he was as much in love with her as ever , patient in his desire , for he knew she would n't have been cured of her passion for Andrew yet .
19 He rose from a cushioned wicker chair as soon as he saw her and came to take the tray , saying , ‘ You 're Belinda , of course .
20 Only a glimpse though , for the large figure darted back as soon as he saw them .
21 ‘ I could tell he 'd been drinking as soon as he joined me on the jig .
22 Jill would work for me if Uncle was n't around but as soon as he appeared she did n't care a fig for me and would be off to see what he wanted to do .
23 I 'm professional , of course , and it all changes as soon as he hits me .
24 She had forgotten how fast he could move — he must have been off Chalon in seconds — but as soon as he hauled her to her feet Isabel began to struggle , swinging her free arm up .
25 Soon as he injects her with the antidote to polywhatnot , she 'll leave him to find his own way home . ’
26 Come on , Rachel , think about it ; a caring man would hardly have walked out on his future wife as soon as he learned she had a crippling disease , would he ?
27 If the tenant accepts that the property may be redeveloped he will probably wish to be looking for alternative accommodation sooner rather than later , and he will wish to move in and terminate his liability under his existing lease as soon as he finds it .
28 Sampson feels ‘ a very great aversion ’ to Slinkton as soon as he sees him : ‘ His hair , which was elaborately brushed and oiled , was parted straight up the middle ; and he presented this parting to the clerk , exactly … as if he had said , in so many words : ‘ You must take me , if you please , my friend , just as I show myself .
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