Example sentences of "[noun pl] as he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coleraine keeper Davy O'Hare is all eyes as he collects a cross under pressure |
| 2 | Dr Gysi made his attempt at power before 2,700 demoralised party delegates at this weekend 's emergency congress as if delivering an impassioned plea in court , throwing up his arms and heaving his shoulders as he made a point . |
| 3 | His hands left her shoulders as he breathed a sigh of relief , and his gaze locked with hers as if he could read her soul in its depth . |
| 4 | He had stood quietly swaying himself on his heels , an almost derisive expression in the curl of his lips as he smoked a cigarette , his very silence provoking her to further abuse . |
| 5 | Edward Hyde had a song on his lips as he mixed a dose of the drug . |
| 6 | GARDENER Philip Hodges bled to death after falling on shears as he cut a hedge . |
| 7 | DETECTIVE Chief Inspector Bob Small had his Vauxhall Nova stolen by joyriders as he delivered a speech on how to stop car thefts . |
| 8 | Apple appeal Graham Rice takes the graft out of choosing apple rootstocks and varieties as he visits a specialist fruit tree nursery . |
| 9 | Unlike Farr-Jones and Doyle , Meagher was at the coal face of the tourism problems as he led a group of 48 Australian supporters who travelled throughout South Africa during the tour . |
| 10 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott , caught up in something of the optimism in the British Imperial Headquarters at Cairo after General Wavell 's sweeping desert victories of December 1940 , was aware of these and many more problems as he completed a survey through the periscope of a mine-laying submarine off the island of Rhodes , which lies close to the Turkish coast ( see map p. 116 ) . |
| 11 | The president was heckled by ex-servicemen as he laid a wreath at the Vietnam memorial . |
| 12 | He carried Sammy in his arms as he had a habit of yapping at cows . |
| 13 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 14 | GERRY ADAMS last night discounted the anger and embarrassment of Labour leaders as he used a party conference fringe meeting to defend IRA terrorism , including the bomb attack on the Royal Marines at Deal , Kent . |
| 15 | Another man escaped from a back window , cutting his hands as he smashed a way through … blood from the injury still evident on the doorstep of the neighbouring house where he raised the alarm . |
| 16 | This combination of fights , action and music proved equally unstoppable ( and profitable ) right through the '70s , Roundtree slugging his way through a TV series and a couple of further movies , stopping , at one point , to gain the vocal assistance of The Four Tops as he blasted a gang of unfortunate slave traders . |
| 17 | SCOTLAND 'S senior judge gave warning yesterday of severe sentences on bank raiders as he jailed a man for five years . |
| 18 | Minutes later she was being ushered out of the small but clinically precise kitchenette , and invited to take a seat on one of the chesterfields as he placed a tray containing two bone-china coffee-mugs , milk and sugar on the glass-topped table between them . |