Example sentences of "as he [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For Farr , ’ said Lustgarten , ‘ as he laughed and joked with his old friend in the front room of their Wimbledon home , was already planning exactly where his carving knife would skirt the edge of the poisoned breast meat , digging deeper and deeper away from the tainted flesh , so that neither he nor Templeton would suffer . |
| 2 | When he got through and began to speak he cheered up as he laughed and talked away , before becoming depressed at the end of the call . |
| 3 | His marital troubles seemed far from his mind as he laughed and joked with the celebrity audience including actresses Patricia Routledge , Alison Steadman , and Frances Barber at the National Theatre . |
| 4 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she snapped and watched as he laughed and turned then , and strode back towards the barn , whistling cheerfully beneath his breath . |
| 5 | Directing the building of what appeared to be a large fortification , Ross was clearly enjoying himself as he laughed and joked with the children , as perfectly at ease in these casual , unsophisticated surroundings as he was in the cosmopolitan offices of a smart City boardroom . |
| 6 | The manager 's face fell as he saw that part of his commission disappear . |
| 7 | At the top she was luckily seen by the farmer , who came striding to meet her , letting out an exclamation as he saw that the object in her arms was one of his lambs . |
| 8 | The girl remained unseen , but the man emerged a moment later , his eyes , as they caught Huy 's , switching from initial guilt to fraternal collusion as he saw that Huy was someone he did not know . |
| 9 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 10 | At the sight of a title he felt that he must bend the knee for her sake , as he knew that his wife yearned to enter what she saw to be the utterly perfect circle of society , conversation , fashion and taste described by the British aristocracy . |
| 11 | The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton , a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew 's in Paddington , London , and Darren Wilkes , aged 10 , of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared . |
| 12 | He was very interested in discovering whether the tattoo would grow as he grew and he thought he already detected some enlargement . |
| 13 | Dominic , whose face was still coated with food , looked up trucently as he passed and Wexford said , because he could n't resist it : |
| 14 | The verderers slept as he passed and he failed to hear the sound of their horses stirring uneasily in the thicket . |
| 15 | The Führer was talking to the other man in a low voice and totally ignored them as he passed and descended the stairs at the other end of the passage . |
| 16 | He thought that something more than automatic associations were made as he observed that the chimpanzees seemed to understand the principle in solving the problems . |
| 17 | They were all silent as he finished until Julia said softly , ‘ And God bless that good man . |
| 18 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 19 | As he left that all-too-familiar graveyard and tramped home through the snow , Charles the Cheesemonger must have thought that the century was drawing to an unpropitious end indeed . |
| 20 | As he kissed and caressed her in turn , Hilary did n't think she had ever felt so happy or relaxed — well , relaxed until his mouth roved below her navel . |
| 21 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 22 | But his main thoughts lay elsewhere , as he realized that the desert campaign was coming to an end . |
| 23 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Boyd said listlessly , and then , with more animation , as he realized that this might be a good moment to break his news to his family , he added : ‘ Yeah , I did . ’ |
| 24 | For various reasons the king would have preferred to keep his hands free , but as soon as he realized that Anselm would not move from his position and might leave the country , he decided to recognize Urban II . |
| 25 | A slow smile spread across his face as he realized that it must be Ace with the Marines . |
| 26 | Tiw asked , trailing off into a mumble as he realized that Legion had anticipated him . |
| 27 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 28 | Well he had actually retired from the police force , he 'd been cited and he 'd been cleared , but he was actually , as it turned out later , practising paedophilia and as he realized that in fact the investigation was coming close to him , he shot himself |
| 29 | He wore gloves , as he had since he 'd first entered the vehicle — stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north . |
| 30 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |