Example sentences of "[conj] as he [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis had turned his back , and as he reached for his other pair of jeans she had the perfect view of long tanned , muscular legs , a taut , narrow behind and a torso that widened to an impressive width of shoulder . |
| 2 | And as he prepared for today 's Charity Shield clash , the £2.9million Saunders , 28 , admitted that the question mark over his future is unsettling him . |
| 3 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 4 | On his way back with the water , he got lost on detour around a fallen tree , and as he looked for his way through the woods , he heard a voice ask from the underbrush , ‘ Have you anything to drink ? ’ |
| 5 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 6 | But as he departed for the pantry the bell rang for afternoon tea to be served . |