Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Angelina ! ’ shouted Oliver as he caught sight of her trim figure clad in pink cotton . |
| 2 | Sarah Morgan came in to the room like a ghost , and McLeish drew breath as he saw her . |
| 3 | ‘ What the fuck … ’ shouted McCann as he saw Hitch turn on the other two men . |
| 4 | Jess smelled gin as he grinned at her . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ Patrick assured Jim as he touched 120 along the straight stretch up to the crossroads outside Ramsgate , where the A253 meets the A256 . |
| 6 | Brave Oates , who was born and raised in Mellor 's Putney constituency , told Scott as he left : ‘ I may be gone for some time . ’ |
| 7 | Hubert bent nails , made patterns with metal bars and suffered agonies as he struggled to lift massive weights . |
| 8 | Verse 12 says : ‘ They believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ [ and ] they were baptised . ’ |
| 9 | Exhilaration filled Roget as he thundered forward . |
| 10 | A tech murmured incantations as he stroked the wires running from this to a bone-framed screen where runes and formulae flickered ; the man 's left hand had been replaced by a baroque prosthetic voltmeter with electrode claws . |
| 11 | ‘ You wo n't need the Missile , ’ Patrick told Richie as he pushed his chair back . |
| 12 | We sign , ’ he told reporters as he arrived nearly four hours after the scheduled start of the talks . |
| 13 | A large turn-out would ‘ punch the mouths of idle prattlers and enemies of Islam and Muslims ’ , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , successor to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Iran 's spiritual guide , told reporters as he voted . |
| 14 | Then , as she watched , a light came on in one of the upper rooms , and she shifted uneasily as she recognised Luke as he came to the window and looked out . |
| 15 | Poshekhonov asked Holly as he sat down , squeezing himself over the bench . |
| 16 | ‘ What are you holding , Belinda ? ’ asked Tom as he reversed rapidly down the driveway . |
| 17 | ‘ Roger , ’ replied Duncan as he started his high-speed descent to ten thousand feet . |
| 18 | ‘ Fond of his medicine , was n't he ? ’ commented Rose as he opened the cabinet in the bathroom where a row of bottles and jars indicated Sir Thomas 's concern for his health . |
| 19 | The agony of his death confronted Jesus as he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane . |
| 20 | Tense , facing outwards , Forster , Lawton and Nell guarded Delaney as he intoned the seaman 's prayer of interment , and then committed the canvas bag to the ocean . |
| 21 | He was not a bad looker , I thought , and shook hands as he told me his name was Freddy . |
| 22 | The man , in his early 30s , was wounded in the stomach after two gunmen opened fire as he stood outside his Hazelfield Street home yesterday afternoon . |
| 23 | I put ads in the dog press , and a chap from the Isle of Wight showed interest as he 'd just lost his . |
| 24 | " I do n't think I 'll ever feel anything ever again with the region I sit on , " grinned Chuck as he continued to bounce up and down on the plank bench . |
| 25 | He poured Moselle for her , brushed fingers as he handed her the glass and looked into her eyes . |
| 26 | The words followed Thorfinn as he flung his horse away from the gates . |
| 27 | Culpeper achieved fame as he gave his name to a certain type of tripod microscope made in the early eighteenth century , but it is not at all clear that he was its inventor . |
| 28 | The men operating the windlass for the portcullis cheered Burun as he rode past and , as soon as they gave tongue , more men came out of a gate-house and joined in . |
| 29 | I followed Kalchu as he pushed his way into the line of men climbing in single file up the roughly carved , foot-sized steps , but most of the men simply scaled the slope , holding on to roots and tufts of grass . |
| 30 | By a fluke , Thomas managed to kick the ball up into the air and her eyes followed Vitor as he leapt to catch it . |