Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] their [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An empty drink tube rolled between their feet as the jitney wheeled into motion , whisking them away from the cargo concourse and plunging into the tunnels of Plenty . |
| 2 | This procedure was accepted by the foreign ministers of the other five states , serving in their capacity as the Council of Ministers of the ECSC . |
| 3 | Article 5(1) contains further definitions as follows : " a group of connected individuals " , in relation to the party disposing of shares in the company , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a director or manager of the company and , in relation to the party acquiring the shares , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a person who is to be a director or manager of the company ; " close relation " means a person 's spouse , his children ( including , in Northern Ireland , his adopted children ) and step-children , his parents and step-parents , his brothers and sisters , and his step-brothers and step-sisters and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee or personal representative of any such relative ; and " single individual " includes two or more persons acting in their capacity as the personal representatives of a single individual . |
| 4 | The FWEs in Botswana got distracted from their goal as the programme developed and attracted the desires of the local authorities . |
| 5 | Small children , watching the falling snowflakes from inside the hut , began to cry and reach for their parents as the snow-slope parted and two strange , spindly creatures clad only in red thermals and inner boots emerged like primordial reptilian embryos . |
| 6 | The Christian soldiers spent a thirsty and sleepless night , their eyes smarting from the smoke which blew into their camp as the enemy systematically set fire to the dry scrub around them . |
| 7 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 8 | The Falangists derived what power they had from their positions as the instruments of Francoism ; they had no organizational capacity outside the framework of the regime and no international support at all . |
| 9 | The music halls , professional football , the ‘ penny dreadful ’ comics and the ‘ penny bloods ’ which were said to be inducements to crime and immorality , the rowdy presence of working-class people at seaside resorts on Bank Holiday excursions , the evening promenade of young people that was ridiculed by their elders as the ‘ monkey parade ’ , the depravity and violence associated with the pub — they all came under attack at different times . |
| 10 | Curiously enough , since by definition a stationer ‘ stays put ’ , they are variously described on their publications as the ‘ walking ’ , ‘ running ’ and even ‘ flying ’ stationers ; and there is adequate testimony to their activities and to their influence . |