Example sentences of "as they [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a silence then , an uneasy stillness between the two of them as they sat facing each other . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There stood the King of Kings and the president , choking and weeping as they tried to praise each other , their wives by their sides . |
| 16 | As they turned to face each other , the music ended . |