Example sentences of "[pers pn] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karl tucked Erika 's arm under his as they crossed the bridge over the green , splintered ice of the Spree which formed a chill moat around the great museums , by the great dome of the Protestant Cathedral , and on to the broad stretch of Unter den Linden . |
| 2 | The memory seemed to worsen her limp ; her hip knocked his as they walked . |
| 3 | ‘ I guess they 'll get round to dragging it off to the junk yard , ’ said Billie , her arm linked through his as they made their way back towards the car . |
| 4 | Joe tucked Maureen 's arm under his as they left the house . |
| 5 | He drew her against him , linking her arm in his as they walked along the track . |
| 6 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 7 | He brought his horse alongside theirs as they rounded the corner and the dark green spire of Godstowe Priory came into sight . |
| 8 | Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’ |
| 9 | As a Bank that looks after its customers ' financial welfare , we know just how important the benefits offered by this Plan could be to you as they are paid at a time when you would need real financial help . |
| 10 | As a Bank that looks after its customers ' financial welfare , we know just how important the benefits offered by this Plan could be to you as they are paid at a time when you need real financial help . |
| 11 | Sit as close as you can to one side of the camera and ask them to look at you as they talk . |
| 12 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 13 | Pomposity and you go hand in hand I mean and if not people would n't love you as they do . |
| 14 | People want to hear you as they know you , not with a false accent . |
| 15 | These are such things as jealousy ( like my experiences of it ) and also if you are friendly with a popular person , they may not have enough time to get to know you as they are too absorbed in other friends . |
| 16 | He was disturbingly aware of her as they moved off . |
| 17 | Restored by a large steak , he explained to her as they ate that he liked to work very quickly on a murder case , pushing everyone to get an answer . |
| 18 | Eve , picking up on some of Ari 's melancholy without understanding the cause , hugged her as they thundered along the straight , smooth road that led to the city . |
| 19 | Venetia was a woman of unusual quality , as is testified to not only by her ability to make two such disparate figures as Asquith and Montagu as obsessed with her as they both were between 1912 and 1915 , but also by the strength of her impact upon many other friends for the remaining 33 years of her life . |
| 20 | Significantly , he said he was ‘ on the best of terms with her as they are quite independent of each other . |
| 21 | ‘ Frightfully kind of you , ’ he said to her as they stood by the kerb . |
| 22 | They married in June 1789 , and a month later , in despair and rage , he murdered her as they walked in the darkness to the Castle of Comfort Inn . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's a lovely little ride , that one , ’ Dennis called out to her as they rode along in the string . |
| 24 | When he conveyed Sam 's request to her as they sat around the table at tea-time , he was bewildered by his daughter 's reaction ! |
| 25 | ‘ Have a siesta , ’ Claudia urged her as they 'd finished coffee . |
| 26 | Maria caught up with her as they reached the end of the village . |
| 27 | ‘ Okay , ’ he said with every sign of regret , turning to her as they walked , ‘ so you do n't trust me . |
| 28 | ‘ Do we really need to stay for the rest ? ’ he asked her as they sipped coffee in the tiny foyer , ‘ I mean , it 's not like there 's any mystery about it . |
| 29 | Kemp looks at her as they shrink within a dark cave , besieged by O'Brien and his men : |
| 30 | Perhaps on a hundredth of those thousand times , seeing her there , it had moved him to think how in so many towns like Odborough men were looking up at her as they shut shops or walked home from mills and mines . |