Example sentences of "as they [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 2 | She began to feel a little differently , though when less than an hour later they entered Ven 's hotel suite and as she turned , about to give him her polite but none the less sincere thanks as they halted in the middle of the room , Ven looked down at her and got in first with , ‘ Are you tired ? ’ |
| 3 | The singer caught their quick look of recognition as they crossed in the doorway . |
| 4 | There she played most beautifully , pouncing on leaves and grasses as they blew in the wind , pretending to chase her own tail . |
| 5 | They married in June 1789 , and a month later , in despair and rage , he murdered her as they walked in the darkness to the Castle of Comfort Inn . |
| 6 | Lady Fairbairn said they were peppered with pellets as they walked in the garden of Fordell Castle , their home in Fife , Scotland . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This suggestion was , not surprisingly , refused by Mrs Thatcher , who , despite the fact that her Government used the guillotine in Parliament to ensure a jury can no longer have a say in the public interest , as they had in the trial of Clive Ponting , declared in a written reply to Baroness Ewart Biggs , that : |
| 9 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |
| 10 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 11 | In Danzig it was not possible for the Nazis to proceed as they had in the Reich . |
| 12 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 13 | It was a source of satisfaction to him that his bridges found as ready a use in the civilian market as they had in the military . |
| 14 | The tape controlled the entire show , including all lighting cues , and the stage manager would have little more to do than read his newspaper and greenlight the girls as they waited in the wings . |
| 15 | As they progressed in the king 's confidence and service , their benefices became more numerous and more lucrative . |
| 16 | The sharp black eyes gleamed with interest as they took in the situation at once . |
| 17 | Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres . |
| 18 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 19 | A child was screaming in one of the flats , while two dogs were snarling as they fought in the wasteland beyond the apartment house . |
| 20 | The union of the comté to England in 1279 gave Ponthieu an administration in which Englishmen served , as they served in the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 21 | Mary McCulloch and big Mary went straight along to the Duke 's house with their loads of food and as they went in the Duke came out , dressed in a long plaid of turquoise blue , and had a quick low word with them . |
| 22 | As soon as they got in the car and were clear of the port , the girl said : ‘ Can we stop for a moment ? |
| 23 | Whatever the anxieties of the superpowers and the world 's energy-consuming community , there were others whose concern was at least comparable , as they lived in the Gulf . |
| 24 | This sound , tautening to the pitch of a screech , interrupted Davide 's growing up ; it had frightened children like him as they played in the streets , but sent a shiver through them that also excited them . |
| 25 | She settled the old lady on a stretcher near the door , so that she could see the sunlit complex , and the happy holidaymakers laughing and shouting as they played in the pool , their conversations a mixture of Spanish and English . |
| 26 | The men of the relieving force , which was a large one , handsomely equipped with field batteries , were not surprised to find Krishnapur deserted as they advanced in the direction of the iron bridge . |
| 27 | They went for long rambles around the hills which overlook Balmoral and as they lay in the heather he read out passages from books by the Swiss psychiatrist , Carl Jung , or Laurens van der Post . |
| 28 | ‘ Both officers ’ corpses were molested as they lay in the morgue . |
| 29 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 30 | In the first three months of 1993 , they bought a net $1.2 billion of South Korean shares , more than half as much as they invested in the whole of 1992 . |