Example sentences of "[v-ing] as he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's not quite there yet but if he keeps on improving as he 's doing , it wo n't be long . ’ |
| 3 | At the same time Kieran is moving as he 's spinning he 's moving round . |
| 4 | Hector ! ’ he was crying as he was dragged up and set to an oar . |
| 5 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 6 | Émile Chaillot displayed the deep impatience of a bureaucrat towards an artist who is not doing as he is bid . |
| 7 | Well if you 're gon na get the bottom of the garden where you 're downhill it 's not too bad but when you 're coming up here and doing as he was watering the new grass on the front he he I mean yes he is below it it 's the bottom of your storage tank in c in the attic which counts . |
| 8 | Tournaments were frowned upon by the church but in banning them Henry was not doing as he was told by the Pope ; rather he was , as so often , following in the footsteps of his grandfather , Henry J. They were clearly a threat to public order . |
| 9 | Chase looked horrified but had to keep playing as he was backing Trippy 's solo on So This Is Christmas ( which at one point , I 'll swear , had drifted into Wabash Cannonball-you had to be there ) . |
| 10 | I think Imamu takes the most slack when it comes to proving himself because he is always around to hear the people who criticize him , where as although Boo is criticized , he is not there to hear it , seeing as he is locked up inside his house . |
| 11 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |