Example sentences of "and as he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strong-bodied American , with his rugged features , had spoken with a quiet simplicity ; and as he 'd watched him and heard him , Morse thought he could well have enjoyed a pint with the fellow . |
| 2 | From his window at the Queen 's Head , and as he had sauntered around Keswick , he had become affectionately disposed to the amiably brackened rumps of the Skiddaw range : here in Borrowdale were the volcanic rocks . |
| 3 | Her eldest son , Albert Edward , Prince of Wales , was fifty-nine years of age , and as he had travelled extensively , as the Prince of Wales , in Europe , Canada , U.S.A. and India , also Palestine , Turkey , Egypt and Russia , he was much practised in the matters of state , His wife , Alexandra , was of considerable help to him and during his reign as King there sprang up , in 1904 , the ‘ Entente Cordiale ’ between Britain and France , probably arising from his visit to Paris in May 1903 . |
| 4 | And as he had said , no-one was in a better position to do a photo story like that than she was . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 6 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 7 | She was glad to dive into her own room and as he had promised her little balcony faced the Sierra Nevada . |
| 8 | One of our favourite shipmates was Sub Lieutenant Cherry Yankee RN , as he called himself , and as he has called his autobiography . |
| 9 | As the right hon. Gentleman is talking about matters in which there may be joint agreement , and as he has visited Langbaurgh and Hemsworth in recent days , will he comment on the fact that both the Labour party candidates for those constituencies have invested in newly privatised industries ? |
| 10 | Before the Secretary of State rattles on yet again about European figures , our minimum wage policy and our alleged doom and gloom , and as he has proved himself completely unable to say anything constructive , will he today at least ask the Prime Minister to chuck it in now , call an election and let us get on with the job ? |
| 11 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 12 | and as he 's done that the mates behind him have shot him with a real gun , his gone , his gone |
| 13 | That 's the theory which Neil Prosser follows , anyway , and as he 's got 16 years of successful retailing behind him , it 's hard to argue with the strategy . |
| 14 | And as he 's driven up at the back then he looked up and he said you ca you could see daylight through it so it was , was n't blocked by anything . |
| 15 | But it was a fairly common way of getting people who perhaps was n't up to standard or whatever , other recruits would grab them , and as he 's described take them into the bathroom , |