Example sentences of "as he made his " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made his way down the path from the manse between the round-shouldered granite gravestones , his face looked pink , as though he had recently shaved in scalding water . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Carmarthen was a close fourth , and as he made his challenge he completed the box around Sir Ivor . |
| 5 | A man who was very friendly with another , or his senior kinsmen , could adopt a more expository technique : he would sit facing him and take his left hand ; as he made his points he would take his friend 's little finger , move it away from the others and hold it : ‘ first … ‘ then the next finger : ‘ second … ‘ ; until he had moved the digits all to one side , like beads on an abacus . |
| 6 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ John Williamson grumbled as he made his way to the table and sat down . |
| 7 | The skipper would be anxious to get the transfer over quickly , Trent knew as he made his way aft to the cockpit . |
| 8 | Shooting him as he made his approach would be easier than pumping lead into a target . |
| 9 | Nothing came of it until 1968 , by which time Larner had achieved additional fame as speech-writer for the anti-war Democrat Senator Eugene McCarthy , as he made his challenge against Lyndon Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination . |
| 10 | During the afternoon , Mr. Penny would somewhat unsteadily make his way to the trap , get in , flop down and lightly pick up the reins ; the pony knowing what had to be done would start off , quickly breaking into a spanking trot as he made his way along Milford Street . |
| 11 | Yanto reached the end of the rock bridge where it disappeared into the hard sand The walking was now relatively easy as he made his way towards the first of the salmon traps , or kipes as they were called locally . |
| 12 | As he made his way back to the van , the thought did occur to him that it might be prudent to stay clear of the likes of Terry Littlejohn . |
| 13 | ‘ Jaz ’ laughed and ‘ accidentally ’ trod on my foot as he made his way to take his first throw . |
| 14 | Climbing on to her back , he used the halter shank to whip her into a lumbering unaccustomed trot , as he made his way back to the stable-yard . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | AN ARMED bank robber was mugged of his loot as he made his getaway . |
| 17 | David Adams , 42 , was knocked off his bike and run over by a van driven by a suspected drink-driver as he made his way home . |
| 18 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 19 | But even so the soft clang rang sharply in the silence and echoed around him as he made his way down the nave . |
| 20 | His optimism grew as he made his own assessment of the other candidates . |
| 21 | Each Section of thirty men would construct an elaborate ‘ creche ’ or crib , and at midnight the results would be judged by the Colonel of the regiment as he made his rounds . |
| 22 | Rostov watched as he made his way through the crowd . |
| 23 | And the fear was growing as he made his plans . |
| 24 | On the cold air as he made his way down his breath blew like smoke . |
| 25 | After that he 'd come down and hopped through a hole in the fence where the canal ran alongside some waste ground , and now he was staying off the streets as he made his way across town and toward home ground . |
| 26 | Trevor Magee stopped and looked up as the pigeons took off , anxious to avoid him as he made his way across Trafalgar Square . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Davide caught his start when she leant over to give him a clean plate , how he set his chair straight and then , after a falter , flowed on , hammering the air with his clenched hands as he made his points , as if determined not to notice her . |
| 29 | Absorbed in his own thoughts , he paid no attention to the purple saloon car parked at the roadside just short of number thirty-seven until , as he made his way past it , the driver 's door was pushed abruptly open to block his path . |
| 30 | He tried to ignore the murmured whispers and laughter as he made his way through the streets across London Bridge and back into Southwark . |