Example sentences of "his [noun] as [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 2 | There was a grim expression about his mouth as he said it . |
| 3 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 4 | He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet . |
| 5 | You were glad when someone suggested that the butter or the jam should be cut up into rations even though you did see the hard selfishness in his eyes as he said it and felt sick because you knew that normally he was neither hard nor selfish . |
| 6 | To his credit , not a flicker crossed his eyes as he said it . |
| 7 | He closed his eyes as he set it down on its place , flattening it open under his left hand , and laid the index finger of his right hand upon the exposed page . |
| 8 | I ran downstairs to the phone , hearing my father coming to the door of his room as I passed it . |
| 9 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 10 | She never forgot his name as she connected it with heraldry . |
| 11 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 12 | Ronni could sense his smile as he said it . |
| 13 | Telephone cupped under his left ear , Jack leant back in his chair , put his feet on the desk , almost kicking his assistant as he did it , and said , ‘ Well , that 's very inconvenient . ’ |
| 14 | Endill held his breath as he watched it laugh and nod its head at what it was reading . |
| 15 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 16 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |
| 17 | Now that I know the truth about everything … ’ there was a note of apology in his voice as he said it ‘ … |
| 18 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 19 | The speaker must take his audience as he finds it ( Jordan v. Burgoyne ( H.C. , 1963 ) ) . |
| 20 | It is arguable that this change in terminology might be an occasion for the rethinking of the doctrine enunciated by Lord Parker C.J. in Jordan v. Burgoyne that the speaker must take his audience as he finds it . |
| 21 | She remembered his touch as he wrapped it around her shoulders and the slumbering animal within her stirred and stretched and unsheathed claws of desire . |
| 22 | In one instance , it was believed in the family that one sister had visited their father during his final illness and had persuaded him to make a new will in her favour , directing his hand as he signed it . |
| 23 | But it was his duty to suffer , if only vicariously , with his people , and as long as he had any strength left he would fulfil his duty as he saw it . |
| 24 | My father snorted into his glass as he drained it . |
| 25 | He bit his lip as he said it , for of course in the past Sylvie had often wanted Katherine to be miserable . |
| 26 | In the last days of the campaign Churchill returned to the attack , pointing out the danger to the parliamentary leadership of the Labour Party posed by the National Executive ; but Attlee replied patiently , explaining the constitutional position of himself and his colleagues as he saw it ; naturally his supporters — with the exception of Laski himself — did not gainsay his arguments , and on the whole the electorate took little interest in the discussion . |
| 27 | The Commander busied himself with his coffee cup : it clinked against his saucer as he picked it up . |
| 28 | The police attaché cried out , falling against the wall and one of the gypsies grabbed for his gun as he dropped it . |
| 29 | His family as he depicts it was one of the greatest senatorial families in Gaul . |
| 30 | And he had a kind of little smile on his face as he said it . ’ |