Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her office desk sits a picture of mother and daughter laughing together as they stroll through the Lake District . |
| 2 | ‘ You know , of course , that Travis has gone to get plastered , ’ he charged aggressively as they started up the stairs . |
| 3 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 4 | I do n't think they blare away as they come into the hospital . |
| 5 | The castle dogs crept closer to the flames also , snapping lazily as they squabbled for their accustomed places near the warmth . |
| 6 | For each factor , the results of the survey are presented firstly as they apply to Solihull secondary teachers as a whole . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's nothing wrong with nursing , Constance , ’ Louise replied sharply as they walked into the butcher 's . |
| 8 | Winged shapes , clattering eerily as they swerved through the air , were descending towards them . |
| 9 | ‘ Ja , ’ Gina acknowledged faintly as they emerged into the street . |
| 10 | In his analysis of the popular culture which appeared among the promoters of the Pro-Life Campaign , set up to achieve a constitutional ban on abortion in the Republic in 1983 , O'Carroll pin-points certain characteristics , which can be abbreviated here : a monolithic and absolute view of the world , with its accompanying intolerance , derived in part from the direct consultation of clerics and politicians on public moral issues and the subsequent failure to develop an ethos of public debate ; a localized belief system , rooted in family and communal authority and issuing in a spirit of absolute conformity ; sexual prudery , a product partly of the inheritance problem ; and the development of acute anxiety when such beliefs — inhering partly as they do in their practice and shaping of society — are threatened . |
| 11 | Sheila giggled quietly as they ran down the other side of the bank on to the shore . |
| 12 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 13 | A few girls were dancing together as they did at the youth club hops and the dancing was of the proper ‘ ballroom variety ’ — waltzes , quicksteps and foxtrots . |
| 14 | The long-time front runners have now gone four games without a goal , and their misery was prolonged yesterday as they missed from the penalty spot . |
| 15 | Both played superbly , clinching the Australians £20,000 of the £25,000 prize money on offer from Texaco and doing almost as they liked with the England bowlers in a perfectly-timed run chase . |
| 16 | References are numbered sequentially as they appear in the text , followed by those in tables and finally by those in figure legends . |
| 17 | ‘ I reckon I 've got him sussed , ’ Candy announced triumphantly as they drove through the empty late-night streets towards Candy 's flat . |
| 18 | It had n't taken them long , but she knew instinctively as they hurried into the hollow gloom of the station that they had missed yet another train . |
| 19 | Everywhere they came upon beetles , spiders and small lizards which scurried away as they pushed through the fibrous , resistant heather . |
| 20 | Her voice , which had been raised , as his had been , so as to be heard while one of them walked ahead of the other , died away as they passed down the corridor , presumably en route to bed . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain . |
| 22 | His father always favoured George , he thought angrily as they plodded up the lane . |
| 23 | ‘ What do you mean ? ’ she demanded angrily as they waited for the ancient lift to grind its way up from below . |
| 24 | The sun blazed down on the ancient circle of stones , bees buzzed diligently as they searched for late pollen , and birds sang cheerfully in the nearby trees . |
| 25 | They can go there as they did with the industrial conferences , but we have to make this careful balance between parts of our membership . |
| 26 | Among the most significant were the Lewkenors of West Dean , the Pelhams of Laughton and the Palmers of Parham , men whose estates grew steadily as they bought in a good market and judiciously married their sons and daughters . |
| 27 | Long after Sarella felt they should have been slowing to cross the drawbridge into the courtyard of Castell Rocamar , they went on , the engine purring gently as they continued into the heart of the mountains . |
| 28 | A bit of activity out on the water catches my attention next and I bring the ‘ scope out ; it is a small party of long-tailed duck in their handsome winter plumage , the long tail-streamers of the drakes showing clearly as they display to the females . |
| 29 | There was a cry , and then the wheels thumped again as they passed across either feet or ankles . |
| 30 | They made their way to the hotel car park , where Dane 's distinctive white BMW was parked , Marianne chatting non-stop as they went in her low , husky voice . |