Example sentences of "as they [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movies could not hope to escape , especially as they had accumulated a mass audience in one great swoop that bypassed the schools , the churches , the charities , and all the other traditional agencies of cultural influence . |
| 2 | Faye asked her brother archly as soon as they had exchanged a brief kiss in greeting . |
| 3 | And she was initially awed by the plots which the girls concocted as they sought to shame a particular teacher or fellow pupil , or simply to escape at impermissible hours from the school grounds . |
| 4 | Communications between them and Rough Trade came to a standstill as they prepared to undertake a short Scottish tour , and from this odd situation a strange story came to light . |
| 5 | Cricket in Sri Lanka is indeed a tough job with the high humidity as big a factor as the near 100 degree temperatures and the weather does add extra pressure on England 's players at the end of a long and arduous tour as they try to regain a little bit of their lost pride . |
| 6 | Go along with your Pack or family and join in with the fun , sing songs and get to know colourful characters , like Bertie and Aristotle Tortoise , as they try to find a valuable stolen necklace . |
| 7 | LANCASHIRE looked to Neil Fairbrother for inspiration as they struggled to set a winning target in today 's Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final against Leicestershire at Grace Road . |
| 8 | ONCE again , Arena failed to turn in the level of performance of which they are undoubtedly capable as they struggled to overcome a depleted but game Novas ' side 54–47 in the men 's division of the Mid-Essex Gravel League . |
| 9 | While the Conservatives are secure in Parliament and on the offensive then they can see no need for electoral reform as they struggle to recover a Tory England . |
| 10 | Two hours later , as they sat watching an Irish comedian telling jokes that she herself considered quite unsuitable for family viewing , jokes that she hoped were incomprehensible to Celia and her grandparents , the telephone rang : it was her mother , to report that Liz had not telephoned . |
| 11 | Addressing a conference in London she said that all too often , families were left isolated drained and exhausted as they helped to rebuild a shattered life . |
| 12 | In so far as they did see a coming energy source they thought it would be atomic energy , and they wrote the treaty that 's called the Euratom Treaty to cover this , but it did n't cover oil , and that is perhaps why it 's been a much less contentious subject . |
| 13 | This composition — two figures moving across one another and turning back as they do becomes a regular ‘ strife-motive ’ in classical art ; the west pediment of the Parthenon ( fig. 132 ) is a major example . |
| 14 | The Royal Company of Archers , based in Edinburgh , better known as the Monarch 's Bodyguard in Scotland , was not formed until 1676,193 years after the Kilwinning Society , but as they have had a continuous existence also , they can claim to be the oldest archery company in Scotland . |