Example sentences of "as the [noun] go [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I thought it was a pigeon , but as the feathers went past the window I realised it was something else . ’ |
| 2 | That summer , as the country went through the turmoil of the General Strike , Chapman took his players on a tour of Europe — and nearly spent a night in a Paris jail . |
| 3 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 4 | As the year went by the economic sops to the peasantry provided by NEP began to have a relaxing effect on this class , but industrial unrest throughout Russia continued to rise . |
| 5 | Erm as long as as long as the customer went through the channels and the procedures there 'd no more than twenty percent . |
| 6 | Whichever method was used it meant long traffic holdups as the creatures went through the streets , their already frightened state heightened by a deal of cruelty on the part of many of the drovers . |
| 7 | Sometimes she took the form of a crow , sitting quietly by as the soldiers went into the fray . |
| 8 | ‘ My thoughts as the ball went through the posts ? |
| 9 | As the woman went into the bedroom , the rapist struck . |
| 10 | ‘ The Seven Great Areas of Women ’ are all accounted for here and , of course , as the years go by the number seems to increase ! |
| 11 | When we arrived the carp were present all over from our margin to the far bank but as the time went on the fish moved out and only seemed catchable from the far side . |
| 12 | The following are diagrams of a machine where a letter is put in and operated on by each box in turn as the letter goes along the conveyor belt . |
| 13 | As soon as the bell went at the end of last lesson that morning I raced out of school . |
| 14 | As soon as the bell goes for the start of school we go to our tutor group rooms to drop off our bags and coats and then make straight for the hall . |
| 15 | But as the days went on the truth became less difficult to live with than it had threatened to be , and she knew that she would never leave her husband because she , too , was to blame . |
| 16 | The worst hazard , though , was that as the days went by the Sumatra seemed to become increasingly irresponsible . |
| 17 | We were told what to do and then left , as the instructor went to the other end of the loch to shout instructions at a few stranded boats . |
| 18 | General Norman Schwarzkopf , the American commander in Saudi Arabia , says he is in no special hurry : as the war goes on the Iraqis become weaker , the allies stronger . |
| 19 | As the saying goes in the sociology of policing , they had ‘ covered their ass ’ . |
| 20 | She was obviously delighted with all the green of the fields and copses of Kent , the railway banks seemed to be opening in flower under our very eyes as the train went through the sunshine . |
| 21 | Coran Brothers FC have their ground on the outskirts of Watley and as the train goes through the middle of the town you may think it impossible to see any of Linekar Avenue but this is not so . |
| 22 | As the earth goes round the sun , we see them from different positions against the background of more distant stars . |
| 23 | As the earth goes round the sun so the moon goes round |
| 24 | As a result , as the Earth goes around the sun once every year , its two hemispheres alternate between receiving the sun 's rays more directly ( in summer ) or obliquely ( in winter ) . |