Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friar turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 2 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 3 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 4 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 5 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 6 | As I followed him through the doorway the porter whispered , " Get your braces undone , sir , do n't keep him waiting . " |
| 7 | As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance . |
| 8 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 9 | We wotchered each other as I led him across the road . |
| 10 | His brow was moist with perspiration as I reminded him of the broadcast . |
| 11 | In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet . |
| 12 | Only his skin , as I inspected him from fairly close quarters , was pallid and blotchy . |
| 13 | ‘ As you follow him through the first forest , ’ he said , ‘ Remember this , if you can … keep asking yourself the question : why did he fail to return . |
| 14 | Then he pushed everything from his mind as she touched him between his legs . |
| 15 | But , as she recognised him from yesterday , so she knew that he had recognised her too . |
| 16 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think there 'll be any problem , ’ he assured Barbara as she drove him to Rosington station ; he had n't slept the night before . |
| 18 | ‘ You know Howard , do n't you ? ’ she says , as she levers him into conversations at parties . |
| 19 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 20 | She felt very vulnerable and awkward as she followed him into the room . |
| 21 | Rachel got to her feet , pen and notepad in hand , forcing herself to keep her disintegrating professional cool as she followed him into his luxurious modern office overlooking the city . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 23 | As she followed him to the back of the shop , Sophie remembered with sharp dismay the appointment she had made with Dawn . |
| 24 | He said it lightly but as she followed him from the staff-room she was aware that her heart had begun to beat very fast . |
| 25 | He looked so gorgeous that she tripped as she reached him in her high red heels , and landed against his hard chest with a gasp of shocked pleasure . |
| 26 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 27 | ‘ Think about nice things ! ’ she would say to Henry as she tucked him into bed at night . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 29 | It took only minutes for Lubor to drive her to her hotel , but as she thanked him for lunch and he handed her back her parcel , he replied , ‘ Lunch was a happy time for me also , ’ and did n't waste a moment to enquire , ‘ Shall we have a happy dinner together this evening ? ’ |
| 30 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |