Example sentences of "[noun] as they [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 2 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 3 | And , according to a new survey by Friskies Petcare , we take our pet 's diet so seriously three-quarters of owners put as much effort into preparing and serving their animals meals as they do their own . |
| 4 | On the other hand the material which Eliot had put into Pound 's hands turned out to be so inchoate that many readers were led to wonder how far the poem as they had it all these years was in any authentic sense Eliot 's at all . |
| 5 | Soon after , perhaps only a matter of weeks , they are dead , or dwindling rapidly in size as they absorb their own body fats . |
| 6 | God is all things to all Nuer ; they see him with as many different faces as they divide their own society into separate kinship groups . |
| 7 | Many instructors are not careful , or thoughtful enough about either their initial teaching or their subsequent monitoring of their students as they do their own cockpit checks . |
| 8 | Many years later , Kevin MacLean and Edward Scott zeroed in on pebbles and stones as they investigated their own kind of erosion , this time that of the landscape seen in close-up . |