Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right ! ’ said Fen as he finished knocking in the strong metal pins for tying up the bows and stern of the boat . |
| 2 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 3 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 4 | The Feldwebel bounced up and down on his seat with laughter as he had done in the car at Amsterdam . |
| 5 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 6 | Instead there was only a blazing , triumphant surge of fulfilment as she accepted the fullness of Rune 's body into her own , and a mounting sense of exhilaration as he began to move in the age-old rhythm of possession . |
| 7 | In response the Syrian-based Seljuk dynasty fought back , especially through the exploits of the Kurd Salah al-Din ( Saladdin as he became known in the West ) who himself took Egypt establishing his own Ayyubid dynasty in 1171 . |
| 8 | Indeed he 'd taken as much pleasure in the simple sight of her as he 'd taken in the act of love . |
| 9 | AFTER movie star Charlie Sheen 's agent , Jeff Ballard , was shot by robbers at his Hollywood home , an excited policewoman rushed over to him as he lay bleeding in the ambulance . |
| 10 | Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal , with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys . |