Example sentences of "as they [vb past] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he envied more the great herring gulls and black-headed gulls which he watched through the bars of his cage as they soared on the summery winds , the white and grey of their feathers caught brightly by the sun as they banked into a turn . |
| 2 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 3 | As they lay on the great four poster bed , their bodies entwined , Maude almost lost in Cranston 's great fat folds , Sir John stared up at the ceiling , brushing his wife 's hair with his cheek , listening to her chattering about this and that . |
| 4 | At the end of our period John of Salisbury wrote his Historia pontificalis , with its centre in Rome and the curia — a chronicle of events seen as they impinged on the eternal city ; and he talks much less of pilgrims , much more of diplomatic visits and of litigants . |
| 5 | The sound as they smashed on the upturned bottom was like ‘ a string of freight cars roaring over a trestle ’ . |
| 6 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 7 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 8 | All through the morning , as they sat on the makeshift bunks , they stared without comment at the kneeling figure who ground away at the rust around the bolt . |
| 9 | The sun was dark red behind the trees now and their voices echoed in the valley as they slid on the frozen horse pond in the yard . |
| 10 | And it may be that the Gardener Centre has a broader community function than previously realized , in that it might be a marvellous place for families and kids and mums and dads , as they did on the recent Gardener Open Day , to come up and spend some time in casual appreciation of the arts instead of what , traditionally , a university campus is supposed to do , which is a serious and intensive look at experimental and avant garde work . |
| 11 | Animate or inanimate , indifferent or not , there was something luminous and terrible about these clouds , raining as they did on the just and the unjust alike . |
| 12 | How early Pound came by this perception is not clear , but certainly he had no illusions from the first that his Cantos , building as they did on the rhythmical and thematic procedures of Homage to Sextus Propertius , would be found readily acceptable . |
| 13 | In the extract reproduced below ( 14 ) , the orthographic paragraph boundaries as they appeared on the printed page have been ignored . |
| 14 | Some said they had seen the quizzical , grey-whiskered faces staring up at them as they crouched on the two boards above the refuse pit , peering at the nervous men from beside the walls of the cubicles and showing no apprehension . |