Example sentences of "[verb] as he [vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whether Dickens himself shall turn out to be the hero of his own life , ’ Ackroyd wonders as he begins his story , echoing Pip in Great Expectations , ‘ or whether that station will be held by others , these pages must show . ’ |
| 2 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 3 | Society in general is kinder too in its attitude to the widower , and is prepared to draw closer to him to give him help and support as he does his grief-work . |
| 4 | Of course , the terrible irony of this is shown later , when Eddie betrays his cousins and the truth of his own words is applied as he ruins his life and finally loses it as a result of being disloyal . |
| 5 | When his form is good , he straight drives with awesome certainty , barely bothering to run as he knows his timing has ensured a boundary . |
| 6 | When his form is good , he straight drives with awesome certainty , barely bothering to run as he knows his timing has ensured a boundary . |
| 7 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 8 | and sweat as he vaults your window-sill |
| 9 | Lord Waddington — former Home Secretary , until recently Leader of the House of Lords and eternal British bulldog of the Tory Right — gulps as he hears his fate in the post-election reshuffle . |