Example sentences of "[pers pn] as he [verb] his " in BNC.

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1 To my astonishment and chagrin Ellen left her hand in his as he opened his eyes and smiled at her .
2 His grip firmed on her shoulders , and she was shaken by the feeling of warm strength that seemed to pour into her as he lowered his head to kiss her again .
3 A shudder went through her as he bent his head and kissed them , and when his teeth closed lightly over the sheer fabric , first on one nipple and then on the other , she cried out
4 Yet nothing , it seemed , could halt the flow of adrenalin that surged upwards or the flush of awareness that overwhelmed her as he cast his eyes over the carefully laid table , the food and , lastly , herself .
5 The writer Farag Fudah died on June 8 from gunshot wounds inflicted by two Islamic fundamentalist gunmen who attacked him as he left his office in the Heliopolis , Cairo .
6 His voice trailed off and Ruth looked sharply at him as he lowered his gaze and looked down at the paperwork in front of him .
7 Margaret looked across at him as he checked his pools in the News of the World .
8 Masses of Sikhs jostled and crowded round him as he made his parikrama , the ritual clockwise walk around the marble margins of the sacred lake .
9 Masses of Sikhs jostled and crowded round him as he made his parikrama , the ritual clockwise walk around the marble margins of the sacred lake .
10 Shooting him as he made his approach would be easier than pumping lead into a target .
11 He touched down at Upper Heyford right on schedule at 1.55 a.m. local time , disturbing the sleep of the villagers beneath him as he made his final turn into the approach lights .
12 But even so the soft clang rang sharply in the silence and echoed around him as he made his way down the nave .
13 Trevor Magee stopped and looked up as the pigeons took off , anxious to avoid him as he made his way across Trafalgar Square .
14 He looked about him as he made his way through , horrified by the squalor , the ugliness of everything he saw , and wondered how he had stood it .
15 Reluctantly , they knelt beside him as he raised his face to heaven and prayed , .
16 Her ‘ crime ’ was not to write to him as he served his five-year prison sentence .
17 From 1150 to 1154 Arnulf was an active member of the entourage of the young duke of Normandy , travelling with him as he consolidated his hold over Normandy and pressed his claim to the English throne .
18 Donna smiled thinly and watched him as he finished his soup .
19 I then followed him as he began his journey home .
20 ‘ Lucenzo — ’ Her hand was grabbed and she was being dragged along behind him as he shouldered his way through a group clustered around a hilarious puppet-show .
21 It filled his mind , and slipped through the evening streets of Dynmouth with him as he rode his bicycle back to his ivy-clad rectory .
22 This thought preoccupied him as he entered his room .
23 She arched up against him as he found his way unerringly beneath her light sweatshirt to her naked breasts , her breath quickening as his thumbs grazed her nipples , making them pucker into hard little buds .
24 She stared at him as he sipped his lager , thinking it was a shame his compassion for handicapped people had n't extended to her sister when she had most needed him .
25 1.25 : Got R to take off his coat and hang it up but I was n't quick enough for him as he removed his shoes and socks in a flash too .
26 Then he hurled himself against the rigid flap of wall , pushing it , bending it back into the hole , stamping on it as he forced his way into the darkness beyond .
27 He produced a box of matches , scraping one into flame and cupping his hand around it as he offered his companion a light .
28 ‘ As for enjoyment , ’ he went on tauntingly , his breath mingling with hers as he bent his head again , ‘ tell me you 're not enjoying this , Maria . ’
29 For a moment panic widened them as he lowered his head and his mouth took possession of hers with an aggressive thoroughness , forcing her lips apart as his tongue invaded the soft vulnerability of her mouth .
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