Example sentences of "[adv] as he [verb] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dreams were short and violent , punctuated by images of a vast , barnacle-encrusted shape which drifted disdainfully away as he swam towards it . |
| 2 | Killion opened fire at a hundred yards and emptied his drum in a series of probing bursts that brought a bloom of flames to the aircraft just as he skimmed over it . |
| 3 | As soon as he learnt about it Ted Bolton , the headmaster of the nearby secondary school , persuaded the farmer to allow his school children to clear the pavement . |
| 4 | As soon as he knows about it he goes into automatic " crisis mode " , remaining cool and placing top priority on obtaining the key facts and assessing the options to minimize damage to the company and its people while resolving the problem . |
| 5 | In the culture in which he specializes the anthropologist is admirably sociological ; but as soon as he steps outside it to engage in comparative studies and generalization he becomes paradoxically culture-bound , unwittingly taking unique cultural forms as universal facts . |
| 6 | He breathed deeply as he thought about it , passing postal workers from the Mount Pleasant sorting office standing talking just outside a small cafe . |
| 7 | Ludovico cried theatrically as he gestured towards it . |
| 8 | Whitlock used his personal ID card to activate the lift and tapped his foot apprehensively as he waited for it to arrive . |
| 9 | One that had gone even as he groped for it . |
| 10 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |