Example sentences of "as he [verb] they [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
2 | The little girls squealed with delight as he swung them round in a circle , before setting them back gently on to the sand . |
3 | Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church . |
4 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
5 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |
6 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |