Example sentences of "soon as they have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He collected her as soon as they had both tidied their offices , McLeish maliciously enjoying Davidson 's obvious chagrin as they said good-night to him on the way out . |
| 2 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 3 | On the morning of November 18th , when Wilson stood in the street to wave goodbye to the Brownings , it was hot enough for her to want to move into the shade as soon as they had gone . |
| 4 | His buffaloes , some ten in number , were straggling up towards the road and he said he would leave as soon as they had grazed up to where he was sitting . |
| 5 | As a reward for this patriotism he was murdered as soon as they had left , probably with the connivance of his half-brother Edmund . |
| 6 | Almost all women were in practice put on to piece-work as soon as they had " learnt the case " ( that is they followed the pattern of the male apprentice Chalmers ) . |
| 7 | As soon as they had made their way back , Bigwig came across to them from the bushes at the edge of the path . |
| 8 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 9 | The basis for that submission was that the officers ought to have arrested offenders as soon as they had sufficient evidence . |
| 10 | Tonight , as soon as they had sat down , Katherine said to her father , ‘ Angelina is broken . |
| 11 | As soon as they had left the room , Nancy took off her shoes and crept silently up the stairs to listen in the passage — as she had done once before . |
| 12 | As soon as they had turned the corner , however , he put his paper down and headed for the row of pay phones that lined the wall . |
| 13 | The superintendent started eating hers as soon as they had turned out of Chester Row , peeling back the clingfilm with one hand while shuffling through the sheaf of papers she held in her lap with the other : formal , typewritten statements from people at TV London who had something relevant to say about Nicola Sharpe . |
| 14 | As soon as they had strength , they stood up , joined hands again , and continued slowly on their way . |
| 15 | As soon as they had strength they arose , joined hands again , and went on . |
| 16 | As soon as they had emptied their tiny cups of black coffee , Nathan had settled the bill and they had walked quickly back down the hill to the waterfront . |
| 17 | She sat down at the table for two Roman had selected , and tossed her hair back from her face ; Roman had pulled the pins out as soon as they had left the hotel and placed them in his pocket . |
| 18 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
| 19 | Faye asked her brother archly as soon as they had exchanged a brief kiss in greeting . |
| 20 | This lasted but a little while , for those on the fringes , both forward and aft , drew off as soon as they had room and control , and sought firmer ground and more elbow-room . |
| 21 | I asked them to return it as soon as they had done . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As soon as they had all landed , Woolley rang his handbell . |
| 24 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 25 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 26 | Desert Island Discs has permeated the national psyche to such an extent , people start compiling their own list almost as soon as they 've bought their first LP … |
| 27 | ‘ But I do have to see that the servants do everything , and since they all seem to leave as soon as they 've saved up enough money , half my time is spent finding replacements and training them . |
| 28 | Commander Adam Dalgliesh is coming to see me as soon as they 've finished with whatever it is they 're doing at the church . |
| 29 | They become very passive but as soon as they 've had the baby they 're back to their old selves again and you think , God , is it the same girl ? |
| 30 | Elephants , on the other hand , kick out the fellas as soon as they 've done the necessaries , kick out the boy children as soon as they 've started to shave , and live in a contented matriarchal world afraid of no man but the ivory poacher . |