Example sentences of "as they [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the uranium mines , workers breathe in radioactive dust as they dig out the metal ore which contains the valuable element . |
| 2 | You get a sort of lighthouse flash from the headlights , as they swing round the curve there and out of sight . |
| 3 | The Marquee crowd — a muddle of college indie kids and rock fans in assorted Gunners chic — react with an equal mix of abandon and pose , the kids at the front looking like they 've got heads on springs as they crowd round the monitors . |
| 4 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 5 | I watch the men and women as they crowd along the streets or sit in their cars and vans and buses and trucks , and their freedom seems inestimably precious , exotic and vicariously intoxicating . |
| 6 | The second point is that many people lean forwards as they slap down the opponent 's punch and so you need to remember that there are two fists to worry about here , not one ! |
| 7 | All bedrooms have en suite or private facilities and colour TV , their attractive wooden shutters are always appreciated as they block out the dawn chorus — traffic noise is not a problem ! |
| 8 | Finally a UK-designed packaging plant wraps up palette loads of printers as they come off the production line . |
| 9 | Finally a UK-designed packaging plant wraps up palette loads of printers as they come off the production line . |
| 10 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 11 | This is the way the young sharedealers feel as they put out the bait and hook in the mugs . |
| 12 | As they drive around the countryside the newcomers can not distinguish between those fields which have been ploughed with a supreme exhibition of the farm worker 's skills and those which have not ; nor are they able to appreciate the beauty of a faultlessly drilled seed-bed , healthy stock or clean weed-free fields . |
| 13 | People see advertisements out of the corner of their eye as they drive along a road or look through a newspaper or magazine ; they catch a glimpse of half a TV commercial round their wives ' or husbands ' broad backsides as the biscuits are brought in during a commercial break . |
| 14 | Mr Grierson explained : ‘ You get the real fans stopping their cars at the top of the hill and then playing Dire Strait 's Going Home — the theme from the film — as they drive down the brae . |
| 15 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 16 | Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ? |
| 17 | Derby paid £800,000 for the England under-21 international with fellow strikers Phil Gee and Ian Ormondroyd moving to Filbert Street as they make up the rest of the deal . |
| 18 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Phil tells Howard one day , as they walk along the street eating fish and chips out of a Greek newspaper , ‘ I think it 's probably going to be the spitting image of you . ’ |
| 19 | As they walk down the landing all you hear is , ‘ Nonce , nonce , nonce , nonce . ’ |
| 20 | The sudden roar as they sweep over the horizon is part of life in this otherwise quiet stretch of countryside-often alarming enough to send children into bursts of frightened tears . |
| 21 | As they pass round the Polos and packs of Durex . |
| 22 | The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls . |
| 23 | Such an organisational structure entails long chains of command , with the consequence that there is great potential for the distortion of instructions from senior managers as they pass down the hierarchy . |
| 24 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 25 | Waves ignore frontiers and time-zones as they echo round the world . |
| 26 | Jimmy Jessop , the glaciation expert , who is a skilled pickpocket , undoes the back buttons of Neil 's braces as they lean over a diagram together , until Neil loses his temper , and chases Jimmy round the office , shouting that he is going to bloody kill him . |
| 27 | It has been proposed that an early event in the development of colorectal tumours is the loss of the ability of colonic epithelial cells to undergo terminal differentiation as they migrate up the crypt towards the luminal surface . |
| 28 | Ubiquitous , often cruel , jokes about mothers-in-law underline these ; how much pain they may give to some in the audience as they roll off the tongues of comedians . |
| 29 | There are identifiable groups of black pupils as they move around the school and we have had problems this last year with a particular large group of black pupils who have set out their stalls to appear aggressive . |
| 30 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |