Example sentences of "as he [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him as he queued at the counter . |
| 2 | Once again he was aware of Emily 's gaze as he marvelled at the confusion . |
| 3 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 4 | There was frost on his hair , on the fur of his hood , but soon , as he hacked at the tree , his skin began to glow and a fine , warm moisture gleamed on his face . |
| 5 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 6 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ the man replied between gasps as he heaved at the oars , ‘ there is something I can tell you . ’ |
| 8 | As he said at the time : ‘ I 've never been seen naked in any bed , never . |
| 9 | Her hand trembled slightly as she place it on her father 's arm , but when she heard the traditional strains of music announcing her arrival , and saw Silas looking extremely handsome as he waited at the end of the aisle , her nervousness fled . |
| 10 | SHORTLY after 9am yesterday , the owner of an ageing Lada saloon desperately tried to restart his stalled car as he waited at the lights which now control the exit from the M8 at the Newbridge roundabout on the western approaches to Edinburgh . |
| 11 | As he noted at the time , new houses intended for single families were subdivided into tenements on their first letting , for the very poor simply could not afford to pay their landlords a realistic return on their investment . |
| 12 | Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind . |
| 13 | Yanto felt a tinge of sadness as he looked at the sign . |
| 14 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |
| 15 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 16 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 17 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 18 | The offices faced out on to the wolf enclosure and as he looked at the pack huddled by the iron fence in the snow he thought how right they looked for once . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're proud of it , are n't you , Aged ? ’ said Wemmick , his face losing all its usual hardness as he looked at the old man . |
| 20 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |
| 21 | He was trying to joke but he was unable to smile as he looked at the old cow . |
| 22 | Three rows in front of Aldrich , on his left-hand side as he looked at the backs of their heads , sat Howard and Shirley Brown . |
| 23 | Now , as he looked at the old woman , his expression became soft , almost tender . |
| 24 | He tilted his head as he paused at the door . |
| 25 | As he paused at the exit she then ran to the front of the car and stretched her arms across its bonnet . |
| 26 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |
| 27 | He frowned as he stared at the brown water still gushing from the tap . |
| 28 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 29 | Slowly he climbed out of the van , shaking his head as he stared at the bridge . |
| 30 | ‘ Where 've you jokers been ? ’ asked one of them , as he stared at the bits of tree hanging off us . |