Example sentences of "[adv prt] as he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officer was run down as he tried to wave Haytons motorcycle into a layby on the A5 near Weedon in Northamptonshire . |
| 2 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 3 | Islanders also staged an unprecedented protest demonstration in St Helier on May 13 , during which the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey , Air Marshal Sir John Sutton , was shouted down as he tried to explain the decision . |
| 4 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 5 | The Rangers defender slipped and fell over as he went to make a routine interception and Atkinson advanced forward to place the ball through Roberts ' legs into the net . |
| 6 | One part-time farmer was killed when struck by a falling tree during a storm while a forestry worker died after a section of a felled tree trunk apparently rolled over as he attempted to handle it . |
| 7 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |
| 8 | ‘ Doc … tor … ’ he croaked , his mouth seizing up as he tried to speak . |
| 9 | He watched William 's face , wondering if he 'd forgotten , or blocked it out as he appeared to have blocked out so much else . |
| 10 | The camera panned back as he prepared to play . |
| 11 | She knelt before the fire , facing Raynor now , leaning her head back as he began to explore her body , feeling his hands , tentatively at first and then growing more assured , sliding over her shoulders and her breasts … |
| 12 | She could see his old confidence flooding back as he began to realize that everything was working out very conveniently … . |
| 13 | He waved his glass casually at Noolan , who smiled and waved back as he went to join a small group standing by the bar . |
| 14 | He pushed it back as he turned to look at her , and Ronni was aware of following every movement — the cursory flick of dark-tanned fingers through his hair , the accompanying tightening of one muscular shoulder , the sinewy ripple across his broad back . |
| 15 | And , ’ I went on as he tried to interrupt , ‘ so as you do n't get lost if the sun goes in , you can paint the trees as you go with luminous paint . |