Example sentences of "[adv] as he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |
| 2 | Our art historian pin-up of the month is the Italian Vittorio Sgarbi , specialist in the late fifteenth-century Bolognese artist Antonio di Crevalcore , but happy to give his opinion on anything and anyone , so long as he reaches a public of millions ( as on last month 's cover of L'Espresso magazine ) . |
| 3 | Long as he wears a kilt . |
| 4 | Albert Rice was knocked down as he left a pub by a police Sierra racing to answer a distress call from two WPCs . |
| 5 | " There he is , " she whispered excitedly , and pointed out a young man of about João 's age , whose lips moved constantly as he said a rosary . |
| 6 | She drew a shuddering breath , backing away as he made a move towards her . |
| 7 | The man who joined Lascubé in his early bath , hooker Vincent Moscato , has forsaken the rugby pitch to take up his other favourite pastime , boxing , just as he did a couple of years ago when suspended after being sent off in a club match . |
| 8 | ‘ The only need I have where you 're concerned is for you to leave me alone , Luke — ’ She froze momentarily as he lifted a hand , passing light fingers over the bright satiny curls at one side of her head . |
| 9 | His pedipalps are brightly coloured and patterned and as soon as he sights a female , he begins to signal with them in a kind of manic semaphore . |
| 10 | As soon as he gets a house she will leave home . |
| 11 | He would leave them soon — as soon as he found a place that pleased him and set up home , or found work at his own mystery of painting , dyeing and carpentry . |
| 12 | POTHOLER Ellis Barker , 36 , from Manchester plunged 60ft to his death yesterday as he explored a cave near Santander , Spain . |
| 13 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
| 14 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury at the Old Bailey , in London , of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
| 15 | Richard Branson was characteristically cock-a-hoop yesterday as he announced a partnership with Japan 's largest record company . |
| 16 | A CALLER wished Frank Bough well on the air yesterday as he hosted a radio phone-in just two weeks after revelations that he had visited a ‘ Miss Whiplash ’ vice den . |
| 17 | AN explosion ripped through a man 's living room yesterday as he watched a TV film in which Michael Caine blew up a safe . |
| 18 | My father made irregular appearances , singing hymns lustily as he climbed a mizzen-mast like a mountain . |
| 19 | Michael Stott , above , catches the Duchess unawares as he plants a kiss on her cheek and , inset , the Duchess talks to Andrew Taylor |
| 20 | DOWN'N OUT POOR Mark Hughes slips up as he tries a shot in Moscow — and soon he had fallen from grace completely . |
| 21 | Speedie should have brought the aggregate level after 25 minutes , but leant back as he met a lay-off by Cyrille Regis , and his shot ballooned over the bar . |
| 22 | Therefore this was a battle now as he understood a battle , however mangled beforehand by being half-decided at a distance . |
| 23 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 24 | ‘ In the execution of a letter of request the person concerned may refuse to give evidence in so far as he has a privilege or duty to refuse to give the evidence — ( a ) under the law of the state of execution ; or ( b ) under the law of the state of origin … |
| 25 | Again , Ata'i writes that Molla Khurram ( d. 970/1562–3 ) reached the 50-akce level at the Mehmed Pasa medrese in Sofya : then , as often as he sought a medrese in the he failed to obtain his desire ; and , of necessity becoming resigned to going out to the he became kadi in certain cities with 150 akce . " |
| 26 | Dysart smiled at him sympathetically as he hurled a bundle of damp tissues into the bin by the bed and plucked a handful of replacements from their box . |
| 27 | Throughout his successful career in which he won 24 Scottish caps , Macari was pursued by a cruel terracing joke ; if he could pass the bookies as well as he passes a ball he would be a millionaire in ten years . |
| 28 | When it had boiled , whistling with a tinny Woolworth sibillance , he warmed the pot-bellied black teapot , spooned in two piles of thick tarry Indian leaves , left them awhile as he had a scratch of the back , then poured the dark brown liquid into a plain white cup , with saucer , added milk from a bottle plus two sweetening spoonfuls of caster sugar . |
| 29 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 30 | But , as he assured Southey on 21 October , he was resolved to be true to his word , even as he contemplated a future with ‘ her , whom I do not love — but whom by every tie of Reason and Honor I ought to love ’ . |