Example sentences of "their [noun] [adv] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ribs will move back to their resting-place again as you allow yourself to breathe out . |
| 2 | A group of grinning Koreans from Kazakhstan craned their necks skywards as she spun like a top . |
| 3 | Even the Wolfe Tone Societies , the one section of the republican movement which had a well-worked-out strategy for the civil rights movement , were unable to implement their plans exactly as they had intended . |
| 4 | Have you ever watched people reading to themselves , slow readers who move their lips silently as they read ? |
| 5 | ‘ Grimwood reports Newman did arrive and spoilt their act just as they 'd got Lennox to agree to sign . |
| 6 | You are following two other companies and the last one is moving their equipment Out as you come into the room . |
| 7 | A survey last year showed that a frightening proportion of child car seats would not do their job properly as they had n't been fitted correctly . |
| 8 | Ambulancemen left their lights on as they rushed into Steve Andrews ' house where 16-year-old Sara Jayne had a heart attack . |
| 9 | The young man or woman sings along with the song again again , putting their head back as they do so . |
| 10 | They left their goods behind as they strove to find their Canaan . |
| 11 | She greeted their neighbours absentmindedly as she passed them in their yards , her mind occupied with the new argument against the shoes . |
| 12 | It 's not so much their habit of closing their wings just as you draw close enough to see ; it 's more their unwillingness to be in any way uniform . |
| 13 | ESSEX villagers rediscovered the outer limits of their parishes yesterday as they re-enacted the centuries-old custom of Beating the Bounds . |
| 14 | Other men of the village were beaching their canoes even as he watched , pulling ashore the dead seals which would ultimately become floats to slow the Whale in the hunt . |
| 15 | More , he is to equip them for their mission just as he had equipped Jesus for his . |
| 16 | If the borrower of bank A uses the overdraft to pay people who bank with banks B , C , etc. then the increase in the money supply appears in their deposits just as it did in the single bank case . |