Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A stony-faced Ablett refused to comment as he left the ground . |
| 32 | He refused to comment as he left the court . |
| 33 | She closed her eyes , shuddering as she remembered the expression on his face just before he had driven away , and , unbidden , the words that Debbie had typed came flooding back . |
| 34 | The mischief in my veins cooled as I saw the fear in his eyes . |
| 35 | She stopped as she saw the look of annoyance on his face . |
| 36 | You will do it carefully ? ’ he added , his tone sounding suddenly a little dangerous , and Maggie stopped as she reached the door . |
| 37 | The driver stiffened as he felt the gun muzzle jab him in the small of his back through the upholstery of the seat . |
| 38 | ‘ How has it been , Wayne ? ’ asked Rachel , making herself concentrate as she removed the old dressings . |
| 39 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 40 | Most of the shops seemed already to be closed and her heart sank as she identified the unlit frontage of number seventeen . |
| 41 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 42 | The image of the policeman had faded back into the trees , the fear of pursuit was momentarily forgotten as he relived the saga of his escape . |
| 43 | The woman was attacked as she left the Yarm Road branch of Barclay 's Bank at 11am , yesterday . |
| 44 | The 20 year old student was attacked as she used the women 's toilets near the Martyr 's Memorial in the centre of Oxford . |
| 45 | Her gaze flickered as he replaced the receiver . |
| 46 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 47 | ‘ Why , thank you ! ’ she exclaimed as he laid the plate before her . |
| 48 | Honestly , he 's driving me insane ! ’ she exclaimed as she stirred the Aga into reluctant life . |
| 49 | ‘ Oh , it 's a reply to my fax from Beryl ! ’ she exclaimed as she scanned the first paragraph . |
| 50 | The motors whined as she put the speeder into reverse . |
| 51 | Her hands trembled as she poured the milk into the mugs . |
| 52 | His hands trembled as he read the report . |
| 53 | Kirov 's fingers trembled as he adjusted the fine-tuning dial of his radio set . |
| 54 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 55 | Some indeed , Ramsey recounts , supposed as they saw the fires in rioting Bristol reflected in the night sky , that the English revolution had begun . |
| 56 | Axis Fighters ( No 2 ) and Axis Bombers ( No 4 ) are particularly recommended as they show the expected types and such interesting aircraft as the Arado Ar 234 jet bomber , Heinkel He 177 bomber and Heinkel He 280 jet fighter . |
| 57 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 58 | Even if it is not a must , it is often worth applying as it helps the marker do a better job , in particular because he can use electronic tools to provide data that will aid his judgement . |
| 59 | Hong Kong Special Report : The snakes are in good form , despite the wind : The feet are made for wokking , Robert Cottrell concludes as he adds the extremities of chickens to his range of culinary delights , along with the mysteries of tea , rice and appropriate poetry |
| 60 | If she was feeling totally devastated as she re-entered the hotel she had left last Sunday , though , then only she was going to know it . |