Example sentences of "[pron] as he [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 2 | On the quay , he almost tripped himself as he went to re-board . |
| 3 | ‘ Well I 'll be jiggered ! ’ he exclaimed to himself as he bent to unfasten his clips , ‘ I 'll be jiggered and no mistake . ’ |
| 4 | Once Chuck turned and grinned delightedly at her as he paused to mop his brow , and she smiled warmly back . |
| 5 | Most of all , she was the only person he knew to whom he could talk without embarrassment , and it was a help that cycling side by side he did n't have to look at her as he tried to explain . |
| 6 | She finished her own coffee , listening to him as he began to talk about his friend Denzil . |
| 7 | His B–17 went down after continual attacks , the fighters still firing into him as he continued to fall , until the aircraft suddenly exploded . |
| 8 | Paige scarcely heard him as he continued to talk ; she was battling her own reaction to that brief caress . |
| 9 | She tried to twist away , turning beneath him as he continued to grip her arms helplessly above her head among the soft pillows . |
| 10 | One of Bri 's great loves , literature , became a nightmare for him as he had to defend even the most off-hand comment . |
| 11 | Then she sat back , watching him as he strove to right their course , his face a mask of patient determination , the muscles of his bare , tanned arms tensing and untensing . |
| 12 | It gnawed at him as he wanted to gnaw at food . |
| 13 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 14 | They stood watching him as he tried to manoeuvre the five foot cabinet through on to the landing with them . |
| 15 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 16 | Mike rubbed the back of his neck , and the silence dropped clammily on him as he tried to think it through properly . |
| 17 | His sure touch for once betrayed him as he fumbled to intercept Chris Malkin 's through ball , allowing Pat Nevin to slip in guide the ball home past ‘ keeper Kevin Poole . |
| 18 | He almost lost it as he came to rest , but at the last moment he twisted onto his back and with both hands pressed his prize thankfully against his frilled inside shirt front . |