Example sentences of "as their [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as their memberships declined in the less favourable atmosphere of the 1990s , they began also to provide ‘ friendly ’ benefits . |
| 2 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 3 | Liverpool merchants became rich as their ships sailed on the Trade Triangle , with trinkets , slaves and then cotton ( see page 37 ) . |
| 4 | The footbridge section was narrow , but only a couple of feet to his left — within touching distance , in fact — was the steel mesh side of the railway bridge where monsters went battering across , drowning out conversation as their lights flickered through the big crossed support girders . |
| 5 | In 1963 , many producers were having as much difficulty securing screenings for their films as their predecessors had in the early 1920s . |
| 6 | Instead , he promoted a ‘ Disraelian sense of the obligation of local businessmen to exercise leadership in the big cities as their predecessors had in the Victorian heyday ’ ( Parkinson and Duffy , 1984 , p. 81 ) . |
| 7 | They showed , from time to time , a faint suspicious desire to force her to provide her non-existent credentials , but every time , just as their forces gathered for the attack , she would produce out of her hat some new and dazzling boyfriend , all ready to pay tribute to her elusive powers . |
| 8 | Adult greylag geese were more aloof and watched anxiously as their goslings joined in the competition for food . |
| 9 | The company buried their noses in their cloaks as their horses plodded through the hock-deep snow and the wind tore at their hair . |
| 10 | Patrick could see the flash of the club 's shafts above the heads of the spectators and the ‘ Oohs ’ of the crowd as their shots hung above the flag . |
| 11 | As their hands reached across the edge of the stage , he stamped at their fingers . |
| 12 | ‘ Dolphins with bellies slit open thrashed about whistling in distress as their entrails flopped on the concrete . |
| 13 | Sir Geoffrey said that at Labour 's Brighton conference last week , hope had been nurtured that the Thatcher generation of voters , ‘ like youngsters offered a sickly-smelling cigarette at a party , will experiment as their elders did with the notion that Labour knows best . |
| 14 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 15 | Instead , the females may help their young by placing their eggs where the minute hatchlings will find food just as soon as their heads emerge from the egg capsule . |