Example sentences of "as he [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | would talk for instance [ Richard later wrote ] of the ‘ Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ’ and hold us all , a group of young boys , spellbound as he unfolded with conscious looks of wonder the marvellous courage of the man Eliot to write the poem ‘ Prufrock ’ at the time he did . |
| 2 | Susan and I stood back as he splatted with a thump onto the steps . |
| 3 | This is partly because — as he realizes with a shock — he is remarkably well dressed . |
| 4 | As it was , Allie was crying and yelling , ‘ Bugger off , you Buddhist bastard ! ’ as he left with Mum and Jean . |
| 5 | In those moments , those final moments as he took her and reached ecstasy , she had been able to believe he loved her , felt something for her ; and , though she knew he did not , she was moved , wanted to retain those precious moments which he had just given her when he had finally stripped the mask away and let her see how human he was as he merged with her and lost himself inside her . |
| 6 | ‘ What did you tell Marianne you were doing tonight ? ’ she asked as he returned with the drinks . |
| 7 | ‘ I know the feeling , ’ he agreed with that fascinating little indent beside his mouth as he returned with her case . |
| 8 | His arm touched Martin 's occasionally as he brushed with short back and forth movements at the front of his mouth and then the toothbrush plunging to the back . |
| 9 | Just as he had with Ann , Tommy had taken over at Christopher 's . |
| 10 | That was the frightening part , losing control , just as he had with Mary , not being able to do anything about it — not knowing when it would happen again . |
| 11 | The Governor 's brutally candid assessment struck a new blow to Mr Major as he grappled with two crises : the threat of a crippling defeat for the Government tomorrow night , and a Cabinet deadlocked over next year 's spending plans . |
| 12 | The Governor 's brutally candid assessment struck a new blow to Mr Major as he grappled with two crises : the threat of a crippling defeat for the Government tomorrow night , and a Cabinet deadlocked over next year 's spending plans . |
| 13 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 14 | When Common Wealth was formed — ‘ a vague sort of national movement , with provincial branches etc ’ , as he recalled with distaste in 1968 — he quickly withdrew . |
| 15 | His fingers were tobacco-stained as he fiddled with a biro . |
| 16 | When they reached the after stateroom , he left her prodding the waterbed as he fiddled with the stereo to get some low-level background music . |
| 17 | As he listened with mounting alarm he began to realise that the flames would almost certainly have reduced some of the world 's finest baroque woodcarving to lumps of featureless charcoal . |
| 18 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 19 | Ligier team-mate Martin Brundle 's had a luckless 100th grand prix and was forced to retire and Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with Williams also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 20 | City were competing well in mid-field and keeping their opponents at full stretch , but after twenty four minutes , Shenley pulled level as Paul Armitage crossed into goalkeeper Steve Roberts , but he lost possession as he collided with Andy King and allowed Rob Blackmore to get a touch and send it over the line . |
| 21 | Benjamin and I stayed well away from him as he consulted with Dacourt and Clinton . |
| 22 | Richard Baxter preached with great urgency and seriousness as he pleaded with sinners to ‘ embrace the Redeemer with a lively faith ’ . |
| 23 | The pilot , with no diplomatic clearance number , made one up ; air-traffic control did not believe him , but he managed to weave his way towards Iran even as he argued with them . |
| 24 | He was well aware that many of his remedies were extremely poisonous in crude doses and from this developed his system of serial dilution and succussion as he experimented with successive dilutions in order to achieve a healing effect without producing toxic side-effects . |
| 25 | Admittedly , Bicknell began the current campaign sluggishly as he experimented with an abbreviated approach , then reverted to the full Monty in the B&H quarterfinal against Lancashire to help set up a notable victory . |
| 26 | He responded to my curiosity concerning the transmutation of metals by allowing me to assist him as he experimented with his alembic and his aludel . |
| 27 | Britain 's javelin maestro confesses he has no idea when he will be back in action as he struggles with a stubborn injury to his throwing shoulder . |
| 28 | Supt Alwyn Harris , 51 , was killed yesterday morning when an IRA boobytrap bomb exploded underneath his car as he drove with his wife to church . |
| 29 | In January 1858 an attempt was made to assassinate him as he drove with the Empress to the Opera in Paris . |
| 30 | Gus did not sound at all like a man recently revived from drowning as he said with sharp disquiet : ‘ Right , that disposes of how I got out , and I 'm duly grateful , believe me . |