Example sentences of "[adj] as he [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat at the head of the table in his white shirt , beautifully washed by Giovanna , with a silk scarf knotted at the neck , looking handsome and quizzical as he drank Chianti and told the girls about his less lurid divorce cases and more eccentric clients . |
| 2 | At the other end , Bryan Gould ( A Future for Socialism ) held his audience spellbound as he charted Labour 's recovery from assumptions of unchallenged ‘ rightness ’ , once taken for granted and shattered by Thatcherism . |
| 3 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 4 | As long as he remained bishop of Rome the pope belonged in Rome . |
| 5 | She shivered , her cunt involuntarily shrinking as he pushed cube after cube into her spongy grotto until she was full of a numbing coldness . |
| 6 | One of the qualities Sir Adrian came to regard as essential as he gained experience of the family firm and aspired to become chairman of Cadbury Schweppes plc was integrity . |
| 7 | Stan , the Post 's security man , looked surprised as he let Rain in . |