Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was laughing at her , of course , as he laughed at everybody . |
| 2 | A WOMAN stabbed her husband in the back as he laughed at her , a court heard . |
| 3 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |
| 4 | For six years , on battlefields and in sieges , they had fought side by side and Harper , as soon as he heard of the new war , had waited for a word from his old officer . |
| 5 | What 's more , as soon as he heard of your problem , Direct Delivery 's manager immediately visited your home and , although it was agreed that the damage was purely accidental , as an act of goodwill toured the shops in Lisburn to try and find you a replacement . |
| 6 | He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike , a thunderbolt maybe , as he queued for the body and blood . |
| 7 | She watched him as he queued at the counter . |
| 8 | Once again he was aware of Emily 's gaze as he marvelled at the confusion . |
| 9 | They watched in silence until he came closer , then , as he swooped between the grey walls of the drawbridge and came clattering into the courtyard over cobblestones that were now covered only by a thin film of slush , Marc deliberately removed his arm from around her waist . |
| 10 | Peregrine performed an unnecessary jump turn and a particularly flashing stop ‘ christie ’ , as he swooped into position . |
| 11 | Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard . |
| 12 | He was back in bed with Betty , getting there , getting there , his foot on the accelerator as he shot across the main road that took a steady morning stream of vehicles to the coast . |
| 13 | Ian McCloud , of Unicef , celebrated as he saw off the first UN convoy of food in weeks . |
| 14 | After all , the illegal trade , as he knew to his immediate , though expertly hidden , advantage , was very profitable indeed . |
| 15 | ‘ We decided that the only course was to run away to marry at Gretna Green , because her guardian , as soon as he knew of my interest , first tried to get my apprenticeship broken and then announced that his son would marry Catherine on the day of her twenty-first birthday — two weeks from now . |
| 16 | In Vincent 's era , as he knew in his nerves and on his skin as well as through his eyes , the new creators were the inventors of speed and progress . |
| 17 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 18 | They were heavy , as he knew from the numbing pain in his shin . |
| 19 | The joke was , as he knew from the records , that one of two of the most successful criminous families had moved from council flats into the new apartments on the proceeds of a life of profitable wrongdoing . |
| 20 | Nor did things improve as he grew beyond subjection to state reproof . |
| 21 | As he grew to manhood , Vologsky had accepted that state of being as both normal and even desirable . |
| 22 | He was the youngest grandchild , however , and as he grew to be a hulking , noisy ten-year-old , his aging relatives found him very tiring . |
| 23 | ‘ Precious baby ’ was the term used by doctors , nurses and midwives to describe him as he grew throughout Allison Burns ' pregnancy . |
| 24 | And as he passed along the line , the men near him cried , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ afresh , and their comrades in the distance did the same . |
| 25 | He said how he had noticed the barometer as he passed through the sitting-room on his way to the kitchen where the meters were . |
| 26 | As he passed through the doorway , he heard his bus go grinding by the church and away up the hill . |
| 27 | Samuel Pepys , visiting his relations at Wisbech thirty-five years later , was equally unimpressed as he passed through ‘ most sad fennes , all the way observing the sad life which the people of the place — which if they were born there , they do call the Breedlings of the place — do live , sometimes rowing from one spot to another and then wadeing ’ . |
| 28 | The torchlit streets , as he passed through them , were not given up as usual to the cats and the late-night lovers or revellers but were occupied by knots of busy , muttering men , putting up ladders and hoardings , clearing mud , hanging carpets for tomorrow 's Festival which was for St Nicholas and himself , not for the burghers of Bruges . |
| 29 | " A lendri , " he muttered as he passed through them . |
| 30 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |