Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A PENSIONER took revenge on two carjackers by ramming their car and then trying to mow one of them down as they fled in terror . |
| 2 | The screeching and thrashing was behind him now as they bundled out into the corridor , and Cardiff turned to slam the door shut . |
| 3 | In the Middle Ages , people often depicted their monks as ruminative animals , chewing over the Word of God repeatedly , as it were , rolling the words around in their mouths and absorbing it into themselves just as they received Jesus the Word in the Eucharist , in a symbolic and sacramental manner . |
| 4 | Spectacular scientific advances have come from them just as they have from other institutions . |
| 5 | Steven , concerned , paid the bill and put his arm round her protectively as they went out to the car . |
| 6 | Hotspur watched the marred profile beside him curiously as they paced side by side , for he was greatly drawn to his prisoner , and could not reconcile the many stories concerning him with this man he had begun to know . |
| 7 | His hand reached for hers again as they went into what might have been a salon in the heyday of the old house . |
| 8 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 9 | She found herself smiling at him suddenly as they gained the shelter of the sitting-room and went in search of towels . |
| 10 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 11 | The young women of the hareem , her foster sisters , cousins and young aunts scurried around her much as they do in any society , running errands , advising , gossiping . |