Example sentences of "as he [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality . |
| 2 | The Leeds boss pointed the midfielder back on and had to be restrained by reserve official Brian Hill as he furiously remonstrated with referee Joe Worrall . |
| 3 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 4 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 5 | In fact , as he later admitted in court , he had been represented by a lawyer from Newcastle at the time of signing to Virgin : not a music-business lawyer , it was true , but a lawyer none the less . |
| 6 | It was Dorothy who provided the watchful , loving companionship which , as he famously acknowledged in Book X of The Prelude , helped a new sense of self to be resolved from his doubts and confusions : |
| 7 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 8 | He was crying with delight , as he often did in anticipation , when his engine started to cough , and he sailed slap into a rocky cascade . |
| 9 | Mr Sowerberry , the undertaker in Charles Dickens 's Oliver Twist , was in the middle of the funeral hierarchy , but towards the bottom end as he only catered for parish funerals — that is to say those from the workhouse or those receiving outdoor relief . |
| 10 | Instead of going to the Club as he usually did for lunch , Owen went to Zeinab 's apartment . |
| 11 | He found himself wishing he was at home again , at Polly 's home , and could creep stealthily into the twins ' room and sit there as he sometimes had at night , on the floor among their discarded toys and cuddly animals , with his back to the wall , listening to the sound of their breathing . |