Example sentences of "as he [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The clerk glared angrily at him as he paused in the doorway . |
| 32 | The agony of his death confronted Jesus as he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane . |
| 33 | As he progressed in the company , Sir Adrian also spent time out in the field selling . |
| 34 | DRIPS and tubes punctured two-year-old Thomas Stimpfig 's tiny , frail body as he lay in the Paediatric Oncology Unit at Bart 's with leukaemia . |
| 35 | His last words were : " Bury me in my uniform " , and as he lay in the chapel of rest he was wearing his familiar pullover , yellow shirt and blue crash helmet . |
| 36 | As he lay in the marine blue bath ( matching the marine blue wash-basin and separate lavatory ) , laced with Juliet 's bubble bath , Charles thought about the Steen situation . |
| 37 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 38 | And that , Morgan thought as he stirred in the chair , was when I advised caution . |
| 39 | The oddity which the fellow-curates remarked was that as he walked in the procession from the vestry up the aisle he could be heard whistling . |
| 40 | Outwardly he was calm and composed as he walked in the warm evening sunshine towards the House , but like the swans gliding serenely across the water , he too was paddling like hell underneath . |
| 41 | Best of all , God will walk amongst his people , as he walked in the garden with the first man . |
| 42 | If the person walks through nothing you would suddenly see the person as he walked in the light . |
| 43 | Patrick , 68 , was hit in the eye by a fast ball that flew off the wicket-keeper 's boot as he fielded in the slips . |
| 44 | As he relaxed in the steaming water of his post-combat bath , Angel One reviewed the events of the past chaotic two weeks , and reflected on the capriciousness of fate . |
| 45 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
| 46 | As he says in the Childhood , he had his full share of determined wilfulness to follow his bent . |
| 47 | Chris Mattison has probably done more than any other recent author to champion the snakey cause : as he says in the introduction to this excellent paperback , ’ … though I respect the ability of some species to cause a rapid and somewhat sensational death , outright fear of them is , to me , irrational . ’ |
| 48 | As he says in the following extract : |
| 49 | For , as he says in the introduction to his essay on the tales of Henry James , ‘ criticism seeks to interpret a particular work , while structuralism , for its part , is a scientific method implying an interest in impersonal laws and forms , of which existing objects are only the realizations , ( 1973 : 73 ) . |
| 50 | There is no doubt that Tony Bowran makes a good living working as he does in the field of the ‘ high profile ’ advertising market — as he says , ‘ agencies are my clients , my bread and butter . ’ |
| 51 | In addressing them he utters no words of condemnation as he does in the case of the scribes and Pharisees , yet he nevertheless looks for an unconditional and wholehearted response from them . |
| 52 | His account of ideology on the other hand is much more rewarding , locating it as he does in the presuppositions necessary for social life and avoiding the philosophical consequences of attempting to privilege one perspective . |
| 53 | If he argues there as he does in the House , heaven help our farmers . |
| 54 | These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) . |
| 55 | As he soaked in the warm , slightly scented water , he ran through his options . |
| 56 | ‘ The Emperor is not your enemy , Deems , except in so far as he stands in the way of your advancement . |
| 57 | Economics is not Neil Kinnock 's strong point as he showed in the Budget debate . |
| 58 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |
| 59 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 60 | Wordsworth felt that he wanted to return to England , settle down , and never go abroad again ; as he stated in the last of the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , written two years later : |