Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing little about medical practice , I consented to do as he demanded . |
| 2 | And with that he headed back to the school , she ground shaking as he strode across the grass . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's wrong ? ’ she 'd asked as he 'd begun pacing up and down the room . |
| 4 | A mixture of fear , at being touched by a man at all — and something else , quite different — swept through Sally-Anne so that she began to tremble as he walked her through to the parlour . |
| 5 | She began to moan as he caressed her trembling body , and when he entered her she cried aloud as though in great pain . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a terrible man — ’ she managed to croak as he touched her in a way that transported her back at once to the heaven of the previous night . |
| 7 | With an effort , she kept smiling as he topped up his own cup , added sugar , stirred , and unhurriedly raised the cup to his lips . |
| 8 | She had turned as he entered , as if some mystical outside force had willed it . |
| 9 | Then she had gasped as he entered her and her poor heart burst with joy . |
| 10 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 11 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 12 | I found it curious that when everyone had finished Robert still had a plateful of food before him and we had to wait as he ate it and Lili talked and smoked her endless cigarettes . |
| 13 | All the people changed until they began to look as he does . ’ |
| 14 | He stopped talking as he glanced out of the window . |
| 15 | Perhaps that would explain it , why he 'd lost his composure with Antonini , why he 'd reacted as he had to the woman . |
| 16 | Ellwood 's clothes were so neutral in colour , so commonplace in style , that he seemed to fade as he dressed . |
| 17 | Then it began to dim as he realised , first , that it was Viola Angotti and , second , that he was not going to get her into the garbage can without a great deal of help . |
| 18 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 19 | His face fell and he began to sob as he came fully awake and remembered that even that was no longer true . |
| 20 | Now Crosby insists : ‘ If he keeps playing as he did today he 's not going anywhere . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I am so glad you are here , ’ he kept repeating as he led the way briskly up the staircase . |
| 22 | Though he did smile as he recalled , ‘ But our time together improved , did it not ? ’ |
| 23 | He had rejected a British war-film , The Sea Shall Not Have Them ( And They Shall Not Have Me Either he had vowed as he passed by ) , and a jolly double bill comprised of The Return Of Frankenstein and The Monster , before turning into the Palladium as a last resort . |
| 24 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 25 | ‘ And so should yourself be , too , Owen O'Clery , ’ he had muttered as he laid his fiddle-case on the opposite seat , curled himself up and was immediately transported to his own dreamland . |
| 26 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 27 | The impression of suppressed energy which he had received as he arrived was intensified ; Peter Yeo could barely sit still and was discharging tension by moving papers on his desk , then fiddling with the Venetian blinds to prevent the sun from shining in Catherine 's eyes . |
| 28 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 29 | He had wondered as he spoke whether Timmy was old enough to eat meat . |
| 30 | He had given her a ring that did n't belong to him ; a ring he had stolen as he had stolen Mister Johnny 's safety and Hepzibah 's happiness when he had stolen the will ! |