Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says privatisation , or denationalization as he calls it , will make the railways run better . |
| 2 | The Queen of Beauty appears in image ; she may be glimpsed in a portrait , a miniature held in the hand of a knight or warrior as he rides off to battle ; she may appear on film or television screen and be adored by millions . |
| 3 | Aldridge made no sign or sound as he went through to the airing cupboard to get himself a fresh towel . |
| 4 | well perhaps , but women get very angry as well , but nothing seems to change , I mean what the heck do you do about it when some estimable er gentleman and it almost invariably must be a gentleman since their by far the huge proportion of er presiding judge 's and magistrate 's comes out with that kind of comment about er a woman 's victim reputation or behaviour as he sees it , I mean what is , what is the answer there ? |
| 5 | Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point , so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings . |
| 6 | Jeremy Ring , or Jez as he likes to be called , has started receiving physiotherapy to help him recover from a motorbike accident . |
| 7 | I can hear him now , sniffing and purring under his lank hair , pretending to be full of ‘ compassion ’ or concern as he recounts the endlessly embellished details of my so-called iniquity . |
| 8 | He spoke slowly , deliberately , first in the music of Quechua then in Spanish , or Castellano as he called it , stopping to emphasise his points with a jabbing , rhetorical ‘ eh-eh ? ’ |
| 9 | Personalities vary , but typically he will be guided as much by intuition and personal judgment as by precept or regulation as he surveys the political landscape he must traverse before reaching his destination . |
| 10 | He had been thinking about the Doctor 's earlier words , that he should get used to obeying Henri , and had come to the conclusion that doing as he said no longer suited him . |
| 11 | Gascoigne laboriously made his way into the penalty area , more in hope than expectation as he awaited the free-kick . |
| 12 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 13 | The warmth from the hot pipe that skirted a side wall billowed across Holly 's face , rubbed at the cold that had settled under his tunic and shirt as he had walked from the compound with the trustie from Internal Order . |
| 14 | On a set of Heath Robinson ingenuity with suspended buckets , antique plumbing and piles of dusty books and furniture — all part of the Miser 's hoard of battered possessions — Tom Courtenay schemes , struts and raves as he seeks to protect his two million francs . |
| 15 | A TEENAGER was robbed of his coat and jumper as he walked home from a pub , a court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | Dreamtime legends tell that the Julunggul , in his guise as a gigantic serpent , dug out many rivers and waterholes as he writhed through the desert sand . |
| 17 | Her husband Colin noticed responsive movements in her hands and jaw as he continued a bedside vigil . |
| 18 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 19 | Mr Brady told Judge Leo Clarke QC he hurt his knees and ankles as he ran away . |
| 20 | Sobbing , Herman Katz sank to the floor , drawing in his arms and legs as he assumed a foetal ball , trying to return to the safety of his mother 's womb . |
| 21 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 22 | It does not mean , however , that he should not exercise his franchise and vote as he wishes at local government elections , but he should not be a party man otherwise his advice might be regarded as being tainted and the council as a whole , in the end , would cease to have confidence in his advice . |
| 23 | Between 1577 and 1580 he sailed around the world — the first Englishman to carry out the feat originally achieved by the survivors of Magellan 's voyage 60 years earlier — plundering Spanish ships and towns of their gold and silver as he did so . |
| 24 | In Moscow , the screen-watcher was unaware of all this drama and emotion as he tracked the Citation across north-west Russia and into St Petersburg . |
| 25 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 26 | He was well aware that many of his remedies were extremely poisonous in crude doses and from this developed his system of serial dilution and succussion as he experimented with successive dilutions in order to achieve a healing effect without producing toxic side-effects . |
| 27 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 28 | PLAYER : Lucianus , nephew to the king … usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother 's incestuous marriage … loses his reason … throwing the court into turmoil and disarray as he alternates between bitter melancholy and unrestricted lunacy … staggering from the suicidal ( A pose ) to the homicidal ( Here he kills " POLONIUS " ) … he at last confronts his mother and in a scene of provocative ambiguity — ( A somewhat oedipal embrace ) begs her to repent and recant — ( He springs up , still talking . ) |
| 29 | He tried to ignore the murmured whispers and laughter as he made his way through the streets across London Bridge and back into Southwark . |
| 30 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |