Example sentences of "as he [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 'e made a bit o' Welsh rarebit after some coaxing. 'E 's not as incapable as 'e looks , I 've come to 't conclusion . " |
| 2 | I watch Perry 's eyes narrow as he handles the needle , his coat still on . |
| 3 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 4 | You like yams ? ’ he asks as he hurries me through the West Indian greengrocer 's and out the back . |
| 5 | With his portable equipment — weapon , tool bag and hook and line — the weight , as he shuffles out of the ICP , is up to about 70 lb . |
| 6 | The Queen of Beauty appears in image ; she may be glimpsed in a portrait , a miniature held in the hand of a knight or warrior as he rides off to battle ; she may appear on film or television screen and be adored by millions . |
| 7 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 8 | The silver water shatters under her feet , the child bounces as he rides on her breast , and she no longer hears Sycorax , only the pulse of the sea as it breaks in frills on the smooth and shiny sand , the splash of her stride and the drumming of her heart as she makes for the forest to the north , her back turned to the bay where the English ship rides at anchor , where the sea battle will take place . |
| 9 | As regards the incompetent child , only his parents or legal guardian may speak for him , and then only for as long as he remains under their control or until majority at 18 years of age . |
| 10 | Should he go too far , the only repercussion , so long as he remains powerful , is for some of the village members to leave the village . |
| 11 | In many firms there will be no room for dispute as to who should fill the position and for how long , ie the most experienced member of the partnership for as long as he remains hale and hearty . |
| 12 | Schofield has already had cause to caution Montgomerie — in 1991 — and yesterday he said : ‘ He is a fine golfer and is clearly going to be a major figure in the game for as long as he remains active in it , but he has to be able to take it on the chin . |
| 13 | ‘ You realise he hates me every bit as much as he hates your father ? ’ |
| 14 | If his head tends to drop forward towards his plate as he eats , it may help to put the plate on a raised block on the table to reduce the distance from plate to face . |
| 15 | It can help if you gently stroke that side of his face as he eats : the physiotherapist will show you how to do this correctly . |
| 16 | The pollution control men are not impressed with the lavish reception , King observing as he eats , ‘ They 're trying to buy us off now . ’ |
| 17 | Fairfax is seated in the dining room beneath the stuffed heads of a cabal of gloomy animals as he eats sausages and eggs . |
| 18 | He submits that the true purpose of this Act was to meet the mischief of hacking as he defines it . |
| 19 | Hilton uses words like " shape " and " image " ( " oure lord God schope man in soule to his owne ymage and liknes " ) ( 1.63r. – 193 ) which depend on spatial dimension for their meaning ; but as he defines them they point to an integration of human sentient powers in a consciousness of transcendent love and knowledge . |
| 20 | You close the door , take off your glasses because your vision is so distorted , and kick him in the head ; far too softly , then still not hard enough , as he scrabbles round on the floor , one hand at his crotch and the other at his head , making a spitting , wheezing noise . |
| 21 | This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing selfconsciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence . |
| 22 | ‘ This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing self-consciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence . |
| 23 | When Benedick mocks love he does so in prose , naturally enough ( Much Ado , II.iii.6–36 ) , but as he overhears Don Pedro , Claudio , and Balthasar in verse , beginning the plot against him , we are conscious of the gap between mockery and romance . |
| 24 | A devout Catholic , he has said this will be his last season as he devotes himself to his family . |
| 25 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 26 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 27 | This is partly because — as he realizes with a shock — he is remarkably well dressed . |
| 28 | Win-hungry Rymer 's last lap , last corner challenge fails as he drifts wide |
| 29 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 30 | The word appears twice in Dostoevsky 's letter to Katkov outlining Crime and Punishment , in the phrase ‘ unsteadiness of ideas ’ — which is natural since a drama of reflection is about to unfold : thinking is Raskolnikov 's work , as he tells the maid Nastasya . |