Example sentences of "as they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As they walked back to the clubhouse with the Vice-Captain , conversation was made difficult by the roar and whirr of a helicopter hovering over the field behind . |
| 32 | He took her arm and she nestled against him as they walked back to the car . |
| 33 | He looked rueful as they walked back to the car . |
| 34 | As they walked back to the car , Sophie asked , ‘ Do you pay a regular visit here or do you wait until they call you ? ’ |
| 35 | As they walked back to the car , he took her hand again and then lifted it to his lips . |
| 36 | Flames and smoke from nearby chestnut-sellers and the bare-chested fire-eaters flickered and drifted into the dark grey sky , and Meredith just hung on to Lucenzo , lost for words , overwhelmed by the volume of sound , the bustle , the glamour , as they walked along beneath the arched walkway of the Procuratie Nuove . |
| 37 | Ven offered as they walked in through the door of his suite . |
| 38 | They stripped in silence and he took her hand as they walked down to the water 's edge . |
| 39 | Mrs Goreng walked right into the German 's trap — he 'd wanted to pay her back — when he 'd asked her as they walked down to the edge of the beach for a post-picnic swim , ‘ And are the people religious ? ’ |
| 40 | Nellie was holding on to his arm as they walked out into the corridor and he felt her tense . |
| 41 | She left the interview-room , straining against the grip Luke kept on her waist as they walked out into the courtyard . |
| 42 | It was cold as they walked out to the executive jet . |
| 43 | As they walked out of the studio , Merry glanced at her thoughtfully . |
| 44 | As they rolled on to the pound meadowland , Gabriel climbed down inside the cart so as to stay hidden until the right dramatic moment . |
| 45 | Despite not enjoying the learning process , as such ( ‘ I hate learning languages ’ ) , she loved ‘ the feel and the sound of the words as they rolled around in the mouth . ’ |
| 46 | There was something nice and safe about an old-fashioned waltz , she decided , settling into the comfortable circle of Jim 's arms as they drifted back to the dance floor . |
| 47 | Their fires were still curling blue smoke into the frosty air as they filed out of the village and across the icy boards of the small bridge . |
| 48 | The Inner Circle of the Brotherhood broke up , scraping back chairs and muttering to one another as they filed out of the Guild Office . |
| 49 | As they filed out of the building onto the sidewalk , Grant eyed the sheriff 's broad back and wondered what Springfield was holding back . |
| 50 | ‘ Are you completely devoid of any kind of common sense ? ’ he rasped as they roared off down the road . |
| 51 | There have been well documented delays to SuperSparc and Sun has apparently built two crystals into its Mbus motherboards so that customers can upgrade their processor modules with higher clock-rate parts as they trickle on to the market , without having to dicker with clock timing and synchronisation . |
| 52 | At that moment ‘ a white light shone forth like a sword ’ from Gandalf , as many people see ‘ the light that shone ’ round Éowyn and Faramir as they come down to the Houses of Healing . |
| 53 | As long as they come down in the next twenty minutes ! |
| 54 | Gainsborough 's house … to say nothing of huge grey sweeps of empty beach from which , at Aldeburgh , you can buy goggle-eyed skate direct from the fishing boats as they come out of the water . |
| 55 | While Cubism aims at purity of draughtsmanship , Orphism is an attempt at ‘ pure ’ painting , not that it involves pure colours , that is to say colours as they come out of the tube . |
| 56 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 57 | And , as they come out of the water the fa , the bible says the spirit takes Philip away and he goes down now to so to Somaria and and he starts preaching there in Somaria a and there 's this tremendous result ! |
| 58 | In addition , as they go up through the school , pupils , whether visually handicapped or not , will increasingly be required to undertake independent study involving looking up references and using graphic information such as charts and diagrams . |
| 59 | ‘ My Princess Harriet , ’ said Daddy , yes he did , as they paraded in with the silver tea things and the three dead-at-birth jam tarts . |
| 60 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |