Example sentences of "as he [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he applied pressure to the blade , a portion of the skull about the size of a ten pence piece came free . |
| 2 | A minute later I heard the orderly 's voice inside the compound as he passed cigarettes to the Canadian through the window of the cell next door . |
| 3 | You got ta try this ! ’ as he spooned lentils into an X-ray thin wife . |
| 4 | Now Affleck , who turned pro as a teenager , has won a place on next year 's European Tour following his outstanding season as he finished top of the European Challenge Tour , winning £39,769 official prize money . |
| 5 | Roberto Lui Wu , a congressman who was a member of Fujimori 's small political party , was shot dead by masked gunmen as he had lunch in a Lima market yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ A commune is the tumult of the people , the terror of the realm , the tepidity of the priesthood ’ — such was the cry of the chronicler Richard of Devizes , as he took shelter in the cathedral priory at Winchester , and contemplated from afar the commune of London of the 1190s . |
| 7 | An onlooker captured Christopher Claridge 's last moments on video as he took part in a parachute display at Eastnor Castle last August . |
| 8 | As he took guard for the next delivery , they uttered a communal sigh of relief and turned away from the game . |
| 9 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
| 10 | As soon as he became President of the Provisional Government by the vote of an assembly , he became eminently replaceable . |
| 11 | Vashinov laughed , and as he brought Vera to a climax with one hand he took his cigarette from his lips with the other and burnt the young officer 's left cheek with its glowing end . |
| 12 | A ghost of a smile , without humour , flitted over Connors ' face as he slapped Delaney on the back . |
| 13 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 14 | The Headmaster muttered to himself as he led Endill up the flight of steps to the front door of the school . |
| 15 | Since then he has spent , in total , several hours in persuading people to climb into cupboards , clamber into lofts and crawl under stairs and watch carefully as he breaks peppermints in the gloom . |
| 16 | It was not easy to grow up under the shadow is over whelming father as he lashed Iran into a nation , Like almost everyone else in Iran , the Crown Prince was very much afraid of him . |
| 17 | He looked out of the corner of his eye as he beckoned Athelstan into the parlour . |
| 18 | Rocks rained down from the White Spider above as he belayed Kartoffel across the ice . |
| 19 | Ian Foster , 26 , was killed with a shot to the back of the head as he collected £5,000 from a town hall . |
| 20 | Coton 's plea is likely to cut no ice with Taylor as he takes England into a qualifying campaign for the 1994 World Cup finals . |
| 21 | It shows the crowned and richly robed Christ smiling beneficently as he hovers orant against a cross that floats above a Eucharistic chalice . |
| 22 | SOCCER player Mickey Thomas was attacked with a hammer and screwdriver as he made love to a married woman in his car , a court heard yesterday . |
| 23 | SOCCER player Mickey Thomas was attacked with a hammer and screwdriver as he made love with a married woman in his car , a court heard yesterday . |
| 24 | Coleridge was overwhelmed , as he made plain in a letter to Joseph Cottle : ‘ T. Poole 's opinion of Wordsworth is — that he is the greatest Man , he ever knew — I coincide . ’ |
| 25 | His postwar writings drew his previous interests together , as he developed ideas on the nature of instinct , the interpretation of dreams , and the relationship of myth and dream . |
| 26 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 27 | The old pub looked slightly sinister standing dark against the night sky and Billy shivered as he followed Yanto through the open five barred gateway into the back garden of the ‘ Sally ’ , as it was called locally . |
| 28 | Miles was silent as he followed Piper to the Technical Support area . |
| 29 | Sheepishly , Nathan agreed to go and watch movies with Zambia , casting agonised looks after Ari as he followed hir from the canteen . |
| 30 | For Brundle , making his last appearance for the team , it was a bitter-sweet moment as he scored points for the 11th time in 12 races . |