Example sentences of "as they [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words rang again in Sally-Anne 's head as they had done that afternoon in her aunt 's pretty drawing-room once Mrs Greville had gone . |
| 2 | The procedural issues which inflamed the politicians left most voters cold , as they had done seventeen years earlier in the referendum campaign of 1945 . |
| 3 | after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face . |
| 4 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 5 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |
| 6 | The following day the EC recognized Ukraine and Armenia as independent states , as they had offered written acceptance of the EC criteria for recognition . |
| 7 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 8 | On the one hand there was the need to allow individual divergences from the hierarchy and to leave teachers some freedom to make their own contribution to the curriculum — a goal often repeated by all Secretaries of State as they sought to limit that freedom . |
| 9 | Sometimes key changes can be used as formal divisions , as they help to give more definition to the beginning of new sections . |
| 10 | Although they need not be ambitious in scope or very systematically organized , pilot studies are in general a useful preliminary to large research projects as they help to identify unexpected difficulties of many kinds and offer guidelines to overall design . |
| 11 | You hear beep beep all night long as they try to pass each other . |
| 12 | Tomorrow night we travel to Potosi the highest town in the world where Oxfam is working with the families of out of work miners as they try to find other ways of making a living . |
| 13 | Hospitals openly confess to giving higher priority to fundholders ' patients as they try to avoid financial crisis . |
| 14 | I 'd like to take up some points as they 've occurred this morning . |
| 15 | Indeed , even honesty is a mere legal concept now , rather than a moral one , as they undertake to hide important information from us in order to borrow as cheaply as possible , while they lend at the highest practicable rate . |
| 16 | Little by little the Grants began to do more things together as they came to trust each other , and to find enjoyment in each other 's company . |
| 17 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 18 | I was at one stage tempted to forgo my chance to contribute to it because of the fascinating speeches of Members representing inner and outer London constituencies as they struggled to find some fairness , justice or logic in the banding system . |
| 19 | Bradley and colleagues are well aware of these problems as they seek to justify newborn screening for this untreatable genetic disorder . |
| 20 | Sheila Mann , consultant in psychiatry of old age at Homerton Hospital , warned of clients falling between two stools as they failed to receive adequate nursing or social care . |
| 21 | Gillian , left , and Gayle give the thumbs up to city drivers as they wait to cross busy Lime Street |
| 22 | Character models are less likely to be hit as they tend to have higher initiative values . |
| 23 | Privacy or privacy as they seem to say these days , do n't they , sometimes ? |
| 24 | I am loathe to take it back to SMAC where I bought it new , as they seem to do more harm than good whenever it goes back there . |
| 25 | In the first of two reports , we look at the difficulties facing people with head injuries , as they learn to take one day at a time . |
| 26 | There 's little chance of the IFA blanking the game out , as they attempted to do several years ago when a United match interfered with the Glentoran v Steaua Bucharest tie . |
| 27 | There was a silence then , an uneasy stillness between the two of them as they sat facing each other . |
| 28 | Police beat back would-be emigrants as they tried to join sealed trains carrying their countrymen to the West , or sought refuge in the US embassy in East Berlin . |
| 29 | There stood the King of Kings and the president , choking and weeping as they tried to praise each other , their wives by their sides . |
| 30 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |