Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 2 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 3 | Indraugnir 's strength failed just as they reached the Blighted Isle . |
| 4 | As soon as they finished the first course Rodney raised his wine glass . |
| 5 | As soon as they succeed the next person in the team bursts her balloon and the game continues until everyone has finished . |
| 6 | But , just like adults , children appear to repair such forms as soon as they retrieve the conventional word from memory . |
| 7 | But as soon as they hear The Old Rugged Cross they 're fine again , ’ he said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ESSEX villagers rediscovered the outer limits of their parishes yesterday as they re-enacted the centuries-old custom of Beating the Bounds . |
| 10 | But yesterday as they gave the clenched fist salute of the Spanish republican army and planned another ceremony next year , they smiled a smile of inner satisfaction at having taken part in a fight which they had no doubts was well worth fighting . |
| 11 | Suddenly he looked awkward , she saw his shoulders tense and his head duck slightly as they neared the french windows . |
| 12 | Most people look downwards as they negotiate the pot-holed road that leads into the village of Perteguhan in North Sumatra . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope you did n't mind , ’ said Lesley Paviour blithely , swinging the wheel of the old Morris nonchalantly as they negotiated the sharp turn by the downstream bend of the Comer , not very far from where Gerry Boden 's body had been towed ashore . |
| 14 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 15 | A handful of FTSE stocks fell sharply as they began the new account without the benefit of a dividend payment . |
| 16 | A handful of FTSE stocks fell sharply as they began the new account without the benefit of a dividend payment . |
| 17 | A handful of FTSE stocks fell sharply as they began the new account without the benefit of a dividend payment . |
| 18 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 19 | Promoters of public investment projects should take into account the external effects of their actions in so far as they alter the physical production possibilities of other producers or the satisfaction that consumers get from given resources . |
| 20 | Such Methodenstreite ( battles of methods ) divided the world of the social scientists , but in so far as they entered the natural sciences — even the biological ones on the sensitive issue of evolution — they reflected an intrusion of ideological preferences rather than professional debate . |
| 21 | The original people are ancestors of the Chewong in so far as they represent the mythical past , but not in the sense that they are transformed dead of today . |
| 22 | Her eyes flashed coldly as they met the blank astonishment in his . |
| 23 | She listened intently as they explained the Statementing procedure . |
| 24 | India 's fortunes changed dramatically as they won the next two Tests by large margins ; the third by 222 runs ( Chandrasekhar distinguishing himself with 6 for 52 in each innings with the ball and 0 in each innings with the bat ) , and the fourth by an innings and two runs . |
| 25 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 26 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |
| 27 | And they 'creted then As they took the big piece out , they kept pumping concrete and shifting then pumping again . |
| 28 | She could hear the audience begin to breathe heavily as they watched the machine-driven dildo lewdly disappear , centimetre by centimetre , into her cute snatch . |