Example sentences of "as he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |
| 32 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 33 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 34 | A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house . |
| 35 | His manner as he greeted her at the church door , then ushered her to her seat , did nothing to dispel her apprehension . |
| 36 | He turned to meet the Doctor 's gaze as he righted himself into an undignified crouch . |
| 37 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 38 | And , as he describes it in a very striking page , suddenly had what he calls a , a very acute sense of unendurable individual loneliness of man , the acute , an acute sense of the pathos of the situation of the human individual , somehow inherently lonely , shut up within himself , undefended , against the blows of fate . |
| 39 | But as he drove himself into a last titanic effort to surface into the light , the pain began to divide and concentrate itself in three separate areas of his body ; his head , his right arm and his chest . |
| 40 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 41 | As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes . |
| 42 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 43 | ‘ I feel sorry for the couple , ’ said Father Kipling confidentially , as he ushered her into the church . |
| 44 | ‘ With your colouring , you should wear that shade of green more often , ’ he told her as he ushered her into the dove-grey Daimler . |
| 45 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 46 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 47 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 48 | He lifted her in his arms , his mouth still on hers with that fierce hot exploration as he carried her to the bed , slid her down on it , joined her . |
| 49 | ‘ There 's only one bed made up , ’ she whispered as he carried her up the stairs . |
| 50 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 51 | Actually , thought Henry , as he checked himself in the mirror , no one , not even the police , would be stupid enough to imagine that Elinor could be the victim of a crime passionnel . |
| 52 | ‘ You 're a terrible man — ’ she managed to croak as he touched her in a way that transported her back at once to the heaven of the previous night . |
| 53 | He slipped his gloves into his pockets as he followed her over the threshold and she shut the door . |
| 54 | ‘ Good week ? ’ he asked as he followed her into the living room . |
| 55 | As he followed her from the room , he said , ‘ Has he been using any new chemicals ? ’ |
| 56 | Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door . |
| 57 | He was still talking as he propelled her through the door and back along the corridor towards the exit , barely pausing for breath , and giving her no chance at all to interrupt . |
| 58 | He kept on his coat , fully buttoned , as he eased himself into an armchair by the sitting-room fire . |
| 59 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 60 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |