Example sentences of "[adv] as they reached " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was windy up on the ridge , and the ponies jogged impatiently as they reached the stretch of open turf which led over to the wood and the track through it . |
| 2 | They drove back to Alnwick in complete silence , broken only as they reached their suite , by Roman . |
| 3 | Just as they reached the top and comparative safety , Lilley yelled for everyone to bale out . |
| 4 | Indraugnir 's strength failed just as they reached the Blighted Isle . |
| 5 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 6 | Tweed 's mood changed as soon as they reached Brussels , reserving the suite at the Hilton , hiring the car . |
| 7 | The three boys had always assumed , as soon as they reached the age for such assumptions , that Charles had married Liz in order to provide the three motherless babes with a proper family life . |
| 8 | But as soon as they reached the living room , she saw his face clearly in the light of the candles . |
| 9 | As soon as they reached the Embankment Father Watson began to speak in measured tones . |
| 10 | As soon as they reached Bagno di Romagna Zen had phoned Geraci , who he 'd left holding the fort , and inquired about Ivy Cook . |
| 11 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 12 | She sat up straight as they reached her flat , prepared to act with dignity . |
| 13 | ‘ Then break it , my dear , ’ he said sweepingly as they reached Luke 's car . |
| 14 | Suddenly the road grew wider and the trees were left behind as they reached a small town of almost glaringly white buildings set against a backdrop of hills and fronted by a tiny harbour . |
| 15 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 16 | She heard Rodo 's voice again as they reached the top . |
| 17 | The Brigadier was panting a little as they reached the top of the slope . |