Example sentences of "as he [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he applied it to Putt 's body the sickening stench of burning flesh rose into the air and one of the gipsy men uttered a faint sound of revulsion . |
| 2 | Quigley had made sure he had stopped hitting me as soon as he heard her on the stairs . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Connon , ’ he said as he busied himself with the kettle and the jar of instant coffee , ‘ I did n't really have a chance last night to explain myself to you very fully . |
| 4 | Avoiding Richard , who got to his feet as soon as he saw something to be carried , she kicked open the top of the Arctic and flung them in golden handfuls onto the glowing bed of fuel . |
| 5 | As he saw her to the door , he felt in his pockets . |
| 6 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 7 | It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there . |
| 8 | Elstir is described by the narrator as an artist who painted objects , and I quote , ‘ not as he knew them to be , but according to the optical illusions of which our first sight of them is composed . ’ |
| 9 | The Vicar was reluctant to accept as he knew nothing of this , but Mr Baker insisted he should accept as was his right . |
| 10 | You like yams ? ’ he asks as he hurries me through the West Indian greengrocer 's and out the back . |
| 11 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 12 | His hand lashed out to grip her arm so tightly it hurt , as he meant it to . |
| 13 | A devout Catholic , he has said this will be his last season as he devotes himself to his family . |
| 14 | ‘ Harry not back yet ? ’ he asked , as he seated himself by the open fireplace . |
| 15 | His eyes skimmed her face , his expression unreadable , as he seated himself in the armchair opposite her . |
| 16 | He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs . |
| 17 | Was he , she wondered , proclaiming a confidence he did not feel , as he left her with instructions to telephone at once if she needed him . |
| 18 | She was overwhelmed by a mixture of terror and relief as he left her at the wheel and went forward to free the line . |
| 19 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're getting my postcards , are n't you ? ’ he asked as he kissed her on both cheeks . |
| 21 | ‘ The time factor ; it 's too late to get married today , but the honeymoon does n't have to wait , does it ? ’ she said , a faint colour stealing into her face as he swung her into his arms . |
| 22 | The sun was on his back as he swung himself over her and her long legs parted in expectation . |
| 23 | As he swung it into Charing Cross Road he nearly collided with another car . |
| 24 | Cadfael stooped and picked it up , and the thicker end , broken and dangling , shed a fluttering debris of tindery flakes as he swung it in his hand . |
| 25 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |
| 26 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
| 27 | His face was beaded with perspiration and as he wiped it with his handkerchief he dislodged a few locks of his heavily greased hair . |
| 28 | She had changed her clothes — as he had himself in a sprint through his hotel — to a pale coffee-cream skirt and russet blouse under a hip-length waterproof jacket . |
| 29 | He sighed with wry regret as he took her into his arms , tipping her face up to his . |
| 30 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |