Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] as he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hummed softly ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and joked as he shifted the weight of his rucksack ‘ as if on a walking holiday ’ . |
| 2 | Connors lit a cigarette and nodded as he inhaled the smoke . |
| 3 | Faced with an audience which included Dikaiopolis , the main character in Aristophanes ' Acharnians ( see lines 1ff. ) , farting and grumbling as he watched the Spartan ; put a match to the combustible parts of Attica , a speaker might well need to invent cruder techniques . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ I said , and retreated as he began the ultimate heresy of sloshing Remy Martin 's finest on to rocks . |
| 5 | Quick as a flash , Simon 's laughing was replaced by tutting and headshaking as he dusted the car off , muttering something about hooligans . |
| 6 | He felt a sticky wetness on his left leg , glanced down and swore as he saw the bloodstain spreading downwards from around the bullet hole in the denim . |
| 7 | Then Armagh manager Jim McCorry whipped the 22-year-old student out from the wings , placed him on centre stage — and watched as he took the house down . |
| 8 | He opened his eyes and started as he recognised the white anxious face , staring green eyes and tousled hair of his servant , Ranulf , whom he had last seen in the infirmary of Tynemouth Priory . |
| 9 | He would touch the menacing batons very gingerly , withdrawing his fingers sharply from their hardness and flinching as he imagined the solid clump sound as a baton descended on someone 's skull . |
| 10 | Slightly breathless , I stood by his side and listened as he addressed the little creatures . |
| 11 | Robyn rested her head on her arms on the sill of the open window and listened as he climbed the spiral staircase . |
| 12 | He took it and laughed as he counted the few coins . |
| 13 | I 'm only sixteen and I 've got dishpan hands , he thought , and laughed as he stacked the plates neatly on the draining-board . |
| 14 | He ran towards it fearing the worst , but to his amazement the figure faded and disappeared as he neared the line side . |
| 15 | His fingers jabbed and sketched as he explained the details . |