Example sentences of "as he walked [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He could hear him as he walked on towards the gate .
2 As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him .
3 He could just see her face as he walked over to the pavement beneath .
4 The ex-soldier looked at the ticket as he walked over to the bench .
5 Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table .
6 He sang that old sea song as he walked up to the inn door :
7 As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour .
8 And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ?
9 As he walked up beside the 17th Patrick met O'Grady trudging disconsolately back to the tee to play a second ball .
10 ‘ Is our guest still asleep ? ’ he asked as he walked through into the kitchen in his towelling robe , the cup of tea in his hand .
11 Ashenden nodded as he walked through into the Bar-Annexe : ‘ Poor chap ! ’
12 As he walked out into the silent white world Michael was glad of the freezing cold that seemed to cut down into his lungs .
13 He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house .
14 He saw the half-dressed models then , and quickly walked away , only just taking a deep breath in time as he walked out from the cover of the parked car .
15 Peter watched him as he walked down to the lych gate .
16 As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over .
17 He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there .
18 As he walked back into the hot street he wondered if some royal bastard did indeed lurk in her family tree .
19 As he walked back to the farmhouse with her , they talked of his plans for Boldwood 's farm .
20 One evening , however , as the never-failing north wind freshened , rustling the tops of the dom palms as he walked back to the harbour quarter , he had the impression that someone was dogging his steps .
21 I recall Hamish in one of his writings saying that as he walked along on the way to his next objective he was reading a paperback novel — how more blinkered than that can you get ! ?
22 It was hard to see and he touched the stones as he walked along by the wall .
23 ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine .
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