Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is regarded as a Good Thing by Orcs who are universally content with their lot , being ultimately happy to meet their end in battle so long as they get a chance of a good fight . |
| 2 | Ailing animals , so long as they have a solvent owner in two , are our bread and butter . |
| 3 | Liverpool get a penalty — ‘ suprise suprise ’ ( especially as they had a pen against them during the week , one of very few no doubt ) . |
| 4 | No if we er do something so as they have a checklist and we can all , you know like me and Jim say , have a copy to say oh right , can we take your name and address , telephone number |
| 5 | Embarrassment , she thought , was fear but of a very reduced kind , just as they say an itch is pain to a very mild degree . |
| 6 | In their experiment , subjects listened to sentences and pushed a button as soon as they heard a target word . |
| 7 | As soon as they sight a predator approaching , they swiftly dart round to the far side of a tree-trunk before performing the rigid ‘ statue ’ response . |
| 8 | As soon as they reach a pound and twelve P , you sell them . |
| 9 | As soon as they had a family got out , they rushed indoors with poles and burst out the slates near the ridge tree of the roof . |
| 10 | A new director , responsible for a large section of the company 's business for the first time , was not in a particularly enviable position ; there were men equally as bright and considerably younger , poised ready to pull the mat from under him as soon as they saw an opportunity ; Hank could be their chance . |
| 11 | But this is not sufficient to explain the behaviour of some felines which will run and hide as soon as they hear a man approaching . |
| 12 | They 'll be round as soon as they see a light in the window . |
| 13 | Instead , they grow a palisade of protective spines as soon as they scent a predator browsing nearby . |
| 14 | I remember D saying they think they 're all equal to the best as soon as they have a telly and a car . |
| 15 | Team loyalties are thrown aside as they form a group they call l'autobus . |
| 16 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 17 | H well , back to obscurity , ’ a Tory MP muttered to his colleague yesterday as they passed a journalist who failed to leap forward and solicit their views on the party leadership . |
| 18 | On the UK mainland , two IRA bombers were blown up as they planted a bomb in St Albans , Hertfordshire , on Nov. 15 . |
| 19 | In so far as they have a derivation , it is from the post of Senior Teacher established at the time of the Houghton Review - but seniority , per se , is not a management function . |
| 20 | Their bodies touched gently and came apart as they rounded a bend . |