Example sentences of "[adj] as they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two were inseparable as they trailed around the neighbourhood , never leaving each other 's side . |
| 2 | The weather is unpredictable and the mountains exceptionally high as they climb towards the Vaults . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two boys were no older than six , their eyes wide and fearful as they stared at the gun hanging limply at her side . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lindsey 's breathing felt constricted as they moved into the crowd . |
| 11 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | VALERY and Ina and their children were visibly tired as they traipsed into the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption reception hall at Ben Gurion Airport . |
| 14 | He was simmering down , or more exactly , getting a little tired as they stood on the sidewalk waiting for a street-car . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were safe as long as they remained within the central eye of the storm . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | shades of grey as they swaggered on the lawn , |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Doyle was taken aback , and looked slightly morose as they paced around the yard . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ To me too , ’ said Yeremi Valence , sidling close as they proceeded along the grey , gargoyle-ventilated corridor past rows of sconces bearing scrimshaws mounted in silver reliquaries . |
| 24 | Gradually he grew less remote as they spun around the Piazza , missing nothing : the jesters , the acrobats , the medieval play being performed in one corner , the drama students creating masks with stage make-up , turning happy faces into tearful Harlequins and nice-looking fathers into wicked Satans . |
| 25 | Luke did n't answer her immediately , but the grey eyes were eloquent as they dropped to the tiny champagne-coloured skirt the slenderness of her legs made permissible , then travelled upwards again in slow appraisal of her strapless matching bustier , encrusted with transparent beads and revealing both her smooth olive-toned midriff and the upper swell of her high , proud breasts beneath the single fine circle of gold she wore about her neck . |
| 26 | ‘ Your ship , ’ enquired Rosheen as they walked down the hill . |
| 27 | She had seemed quite tranquil as they walked in the sunshine through the crowded cathedral square where spectator stands were being erected ready for the Easter celebrations . |
| 28 | They come across as the same songs although they do n't sound as huge and magnificent and lush as they do on the record . |
| 29 | Hathor was also thought to dispense food and drink to the dead as they passed into the Afterworld , and some papyri show her either licking a newly dead soul or offering comforting suck from her udder , whilst in her guise as a cow . |
| 30 | The rescuers fell silent as they listened to the hymn from deep in the earth and few who heard it were without tears in their eyes or lumps in their throats . |