Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 2 | All the males of the Khedive 's family tended to thicken out and age suddenly as they approached middle age . |
| 3 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 4 | The salesmen 's patter was good , polished at each performance and repeated daily as they attended different markets . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , if they added that , they could also have their conquered victims become willing slaves , so long as they give regular dosages . |
| 6 | The rule against prior restraint is designed to allow publishers to publish even if this means betraying a confidence — a betrayal which , as Lord Denning points out , may be very much in the public interest — so long as they pay any damages that may be appropriate . |
| 7 | These documents form a basis for the history of Jacques le Romain and his father , Martin ; they make possible the revision of the most recently published Hotteterre genealogical charts , especially as they document three Hotteterre makers previously unidentified , including one who lived in London in the service of the King ; and they offer clarification of the Hotteterre makers ' marks , and alter our view of how the three-piece flute of the early Baroque developed into the four-piece flute with corps de rechange . |
| 8 | What stages do they go through as they acquire new words ? |
| 9 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 10 | Volunteers constantly tug in all directions while others bewail the imminent end of the organization — just as they did last week , last year and ( in a few cases ) last decade . |
| 11 | Saunderson , Atkins and May DJ of course , just as they produce local kids with talent at their studio and put out their records on the myriad of small labels they share between them . |
| 12 | The British rule it , just as they rule this country . |
| 13 | Apparently if click on one particular size that they can get it from , that could wipe out 's business cos as soon as they click one size , then 'll be in and wipe the floor with them . |
| 14 | And they go up to it and they f as soon as they pick one foot up to kick the ball they fall over . |
| 15 | And er they listened very carefully to us , in fact council of Kivanagh actually brought up a sample of the dinner they issued to old people and I , I did notice as soon as they put this sample on the table the opposition the c Conservatives and they still are , their heads bowed . |
| 16 | The basis for that submission was that the officers ought to have arrested offenders as soon as they had sufficient evidence . |
| 17 | Engineers were quick to shore up the weakened Botley Road Flyover in Oxford as soon as they found corroded support wires in the spans . |
| 18 | HEALTH ministers were accused of a massive ‘ leap in the dark ’ yesterday as they prepared another shake-up of the NHS . |
| 19 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales tried to steal one another 's thunder yesterday as they swapped traditional roles . |
| 20 | BRITISH peacekeeping troops faced sniper fire yesterday as they evacuated 181 Croat civilians from an 800 year-old monastery outside Travnik . |
| 21 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 22 | He glanced up as they completed this transaction to find the attention of the nearest two tables , both exclusively male , fixed disbelievingly on them . |
| 23 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |
| 24 | The Planning Advisory Group thought it unlikely that there would be any more , and ‘ in so far as they show less detail ( eg town map primary school and minor open space allocations ) it may be less ’ . |
| 25 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |
| 26 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
| 27 | In so far as they encourage greater police intervention on picket lines or at demonstrations , and enable them to impose their authority on many aspects of community life , the 1984 and 1986 Acts have profound implications for the possibility of disorder . |
| 28 | Third , mechanical aids such as ventilators and the like may be classified as ‘ extraordinary measures ’ in so far as they involve excessive pain or other inconvenience . |
| 29 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 30 | With Mark Hughes stepping into the centre-back role , Tranmere defended as well as they have all season , restricting Leicester to a smattering of half chances . |