Example sentences of "[adj] as they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | She wondered if the boys were discussing this as they whizzed along the nearer road in Andrew 's fast car . |
2 | The two were inseparable as they trailed around the neighbourhood , never leaving each other 's side . |
3 | The weather is unpredictable and the mountains exceptionally high as they climb towards the Vaults . |
4 | While there , he was able to forget the ritual of Monday morning when , in the darkness of winter or the bright light of summer 's early dawns , Celtic Crescent and the streets of Jewtown would be clamorous with the noise of horses being led from nearby stables and harnessed to carts , of men shouting instructions and calling to each other in Yiddish and English as they struggled under the weight of trunks and knapsacks stuffed to overflowing with clothes , fancy goods , kitchen articles , holy pictures , enlargements of family photographs — anything that might be suitable for selling from door to door on a weekly-payment basis . |
5 | The first if the ‘ bottom of the in-tray phenomenon ’ which refers to the continuous marginalisation , trivialisation and the hope that if the language issue is ignored everyone will learn English as they come through the Channel Tunnel . |
6 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
7 | It is the lens which completes the refraction of the rays of light as they pass through the posterior chamber ( which is filled with a jelloid substance , the vitreous humour ) . |
8 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
9 | The two boys were no older than six , their eyes wide and fearful as they stared at the gun hanging limply at her side . |
10 | The changes proposed by these authors in so much as they relate to the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands are summarised below . |
11 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
12 | In the first three months of 1993 , they bought a net $1.2 billion of South Korean shares , more than half as much as they invested in the whole of 1992 . |
13 | The alternative is , where A and B are still , look at the axis , A and B are still getting bigger as they go along the axis but the relationship is different . |
14 | The billows of cloud were gleaming as they moved through the rain , and briefly her senses lifted at the sight , but there was no instant consolation there — only , inside a crowded mind , a sudden increase of space . |
15 | Lindsey 's breathing felt constricted as they moved into the crowd . |
16 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
17 | WAC 's most elaborate ruse to date was to turn up at the Republican convention in Houston and install batch after batch of 20-by-60-foot high feminist slogans ( designed by Anderson , Kruger et al ) which greeted Bush 's nearest and dearest as they exited from the convention . |
18 | Today and in the future they regard the borders of all states in Europe as inviolable as they stand on the day of the signing of this treaty . |
19 | VALERY and Ina and their children were visibly tired as they traipsed into the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption reception hall at Ben Gurion Airport . |
20 | He was simmering down , or more exactly , getting a little tired as they stood on the sidewalk waiting for a street-car . |
21 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
22 | However , Pavlov , the famous behaviour scientist , listed four main groups of temperament types , which are useful as they relate to the animal 's response to learning and difficult circumstances . |
23 | Still , on with the show , and THE FARM give as good as they get against the ubiquitous torrent of abuse from those increasingly charming and tolerant ( arf arf arf ) Carter fans . |
24 | They were safe as long as they remained within the central eye of the storm . |
25 | William Horwood 's fantastical DUNCTON TALES ( Fontana , £4.99 ) takes his moles on a further quest fighting evil as they search for the book of stones . |
26 | In some cases we have amended the NCC versions to improve continuity between levels 1 to 3 as they appear in the statutory Documents and our newly formulated statements of attainment and programmes of study for levels 6 to 10 . |
27 | shades of grey as they swaggered on the lawn , |
28 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
29 | Doyle was taken aback , and looked slightly morose as they paced around the yard . |
30 | Erm on the issue of building materials I feel this is of particular importance to Hertfordshire residents living as they do on the gravel there . |