Example sentences of "as he [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er soon as he come in the house he he just walloped my mam for nothing . |
| 2 | As he disrobed in the vestry , Quentin paused more than once , glancing at the closed door , as though expecting the boy to appear with his smile . |
| 3 | As he observed in the report , if the Allies could ‘ plan for a better peace even while waging war , they will win together two victories which in truth are indivisible ’ . |
| 4 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 5 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 6 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 7 | He was said to be in a comfortable condition today , as he recovered in a hospital burns unit . |
| 8 | He did n't mind what Jack knew about him , within reason , that is , although he had ceased to confide in him as absolutely as he had in the days when they passed through Kingsmarkham Primary School together . |
| 9 | Two or three times Mungo glanced behind him , imagining , as he had in the train , that the gap might close , cutting off retreat . |
| 10 | And in 1982 Gemayel still saw it as he had in the late 1930s , as a movement of renewal that prepared Lebanon 's young Christians for independence and civic responsibility . |
| 11 | Perhaps that was why Father Devlin had volunteered to act as match-maker , preferring to have him married rather than have him fornicate , as he had in the past , with the tinker women passing through the district . |
| 12 | To Nick 's left sat Colonel Beamish who was looking as sceptical and impatient as he had in the stewards ' room at Ascot , and Lord Chester , a wealthy landowner who had ridden as an amateur until recently . |
| 13 | He searched my eyes , then did something strange : reached out , as he had in the boat , and touched my shoulder paternally . |
| 14 | A bell tinkled as he went in the shop . |
| 15 | She felt Adam 's ribs swell suddenly as he took in a huge breath ; he thrust her away from him , seized hold of the roof slab as if to pull it down on top of them ; and screamed . |
| 16 | Hazel was watching Fiver as he took in the sight of the field , when Buckthorn drew his attention back to the foot of the slope . |
| 17 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 18 | She waved him in to the sitting-room , and Piers looked up as they entered , his eyes expressionless as he took in the identity of the visitor . |
| 19 | ‘ Save it for the audience , ’ Josh said drily , his friendly brown eyes faintly annoyed as he took in the scene . |
| 20 | He watched his friend watching Isabel and his hazel eyes slowly widened as he took in the tightly drawn stillness in the other man 's body , the white-knuckled fist still clenched against the wall . |
| 21 | The sandy-haired man 's eyes narrowed as he took in the possessive gesture , but he made no comment on it . |
| 22 | On Christmas Eve 1827 he arrived at Abbotsford which he had left six months before , as he wrote in a letter , ‘ in doubt whether I should fly my country and become avowedly bankrupt and surrender my library and household furniture with the life-rent of my estate for sale . ’ |
| 23 | As he wrote in a revealing letter dated 20 September 1963 : |
| 24 | Finally , after some ‘ agonizing ’ , he agreed ‘ on the grounds ’ , as he wrote in the introduction to the catalogue , ‘ that I have a passion for Italy , her people , her countryside and the way in which art quite naturally seems to invade every aspect of life , thereby producing an atmosphere that is totally irresistible ’ . |
| 25 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 26 | The critic as advocate has been fortunate in twentieth-century France , where a climate of culture has brought art and literature together ; also art and philosophy , in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre 's advocacy of Giacometti , in whose emaciated figure sculptures the philosopher saw a metaphor of human struggle , even , as he wrote in an article in Les Temps modernes in 1948 , ‘ the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald ’ . |
| 27 | Not everyone is familiar with these two interesting variations in lock construction , so that the lucid descriptions in Eric de Mare 's excellent little book , The Canals of England are worth quoting , especially as he refers in the book directly to the Grand Union examples . |
| 28 | Parson James Woodforde must have thought the throne was already shaking when , as he described in his diary on 29 October 1795 , he saw the prince 's father being grossly insulted as he drove in the state coach through St James 's Park . |
| 29 | As he said in a radio broadcast in 1946 , the Criterion in later years " tended to reflect a particular point of view rather than to illustrate a variety of views on that plane . " |
| 30 | His mouth twisted into a wry grin as he said in a sardonic tone , ‘ Thank you , Doreen — that 's mighty big of you . ’ |