Example sentences of "as they [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newport were understrength , but Gloucester were on full power as they piled up the points . |
| 2 | Donald , Pringle , Snell and McMillan all looked healthily hostile as they blew away the cream of Australian batting for under 200 , and Hudson showed touches of class as South Africa won by nine wickets . |
| 3 | The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction . |
| 4 | Shivering in their nakedness , and all shorn of their hair , the actors kept on only their stage boots as they walked back the way they had come . |
| 5 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 6 | Further , many could not afford to undertake such pomp as they had neither the capital , credit facilities , stock , staff nor expertise ; some simply did not have the inclination to become involved . |
| 7 | Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage . |
| 8 | And that was all that mattered as they cruised down the freeway , alone together in Zitney 's gleaming red hatchback . |
| 9 | Portadown were firmly in the driving seat as they pegged back the Dublin side inside their 25 , with Loreto relying on the break . |
| 10 | As they peeled back the debris of centuries , complete houses and workshops emerged , still containing everyday tools , utensils and clothing from a civilisation buried for a thousand years . |
| 11 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 12 | So the arrival at the Grand Quay of that famous pirate ship the ‘ Black Pig ’ caused no excitement , and Captain Pugwash , the Mate , Barnabas , Willy and Tom the cabin boy attracted little attention as they stepped down the gangplank and set off to view the sights of the town . |
| 13 | The gang had played monopoly as they wiled away the hours , perhaps dreaming of Park Lane and Mayfair . |
| 14 | More effective was the rush by two of the protection squad firing their tommies as they ran down the ship 's steep gangplank . |
| 15 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 16 | As they rode down the village , George noted how clean and tidy it was . |
| 17 | She sympathised with the Duchess of York as she fought against her lack of freedom , she was tactful and kind when her own daughter told her that her marriage was dead and , finally , she acted as mediator to Charles and Diana as they fought out the death throes of their loveless union . |
| 18 | After a while , I turned to watch them as they receded down the hillside — two lumbering animals , with bodies grossly disproportionate to their slender stick-like ankles . |
| 19 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |
| 20 | The English had the advantage of a dominating position and they subjected the Scots to a devastating hail of arrows as they struggled up the slope to engage the English forces . |
| 21 | They became widely separated as they struggled up the slope . |
| 22 | A glorious red butterfly with sapphire blue eyes on its wingtips fluttered and curtsied in front of me , moorland sheep scuttled reluctantly off the track as I ploughed towards them and a group of walkers cursed as they struggled up the bank . |
| 23 | As they shored up the ceiling with wooden planks , the cleared rubble was passed in buckets along a human chain of miners in the underground roadway . |
| 24 | Mother Bombie asked Evelyn as they trudged up the shingle path towards the girls ' house . |
| 25 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 26 | Henry sat for quite a long time thinking about the conversation between Elinor and her mother as they hurtled down the Paso della Lagastrella , brakeless . |
| 27 | The remembered light on the empty hayfields would grow magical , the green shade of the beeches would give out a delicious coolness as they tasted again the sardines between slices of bread : when they were away the house would become the summer light and shade above their whole lives . |
| 28 | The yacht pitched forward as they slid down the bow wave . |
| 29 | She recalled , with a lump in her throat , the slow tears gathering , glistening in the light of the lantern as they slid down the furrows in his cheeks . |
| 30 | ‘ What are you wearing for the party ? ’ asked Irene , as they cleared away the tea things . |