Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched them suspiciously as they plodded through the soft , dry sand all churned-up with trippers ’ footprints . |
| 2 | Zuwaya and Magharba tellers also counted them unofficially as they went in . |
| 3 | A PENSIONER took revenge on two carjackers by ramming their car and then trying to mow one of them down as they fled in terror . |
| 4 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 5 | Spectacular scientific advances have come from them just as they have from other institutions . |
| 6 | She saw them just as they saw her , and waved to them — with disastrous results . |
| 7 | There were meadow browns , small skippers , and even painted ladies flitting among the tall flowering grasses on the canal bank , bending them over as they settled , knocking off the pollen in puffs of fine , yellow mist . |
| 8 | He went among the beggars who congregated in tube-station entrances , looking them over as they sat hunched and huddled on steps . |
| 9 | This puts them off as they are afraid of making fools of themselves . ’ |
| 10 | Tick them off as they appear — until you can call Diamond full house . |
| 11 | Then you can just chop them off as they become constants . |
| 12 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
| 13 | When you are able to do this with the major scales , try the various minors , modes and arpeggios , mixing them up as they might occur in a chord progression . |
| 14 | There are no official rules and people tend to make them up as they go along . |
| 15 | They make them up as they go along . |
| 16 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 17 | They make them up as they go along . |
| 18 | Can we have big fobs on them or something so as they do n't put the bloody things in their pockets ? |
| 19 | No if we er do something so as they have a checklist and we can all , you know like me and Jim say , have a copy to say oh right , can we take your name and address , telephone number |
| 20 | But we can buttonhole anyone we please as they leave the chamber : a privilege akin to the London correspondents of Pravda or Izvestia being able to accost cabinet ministers in the members ' lobby of the Commons . |
| 21 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 22 | Brushing past the tall ferns , she noticed that the halo of flies buzzing around her head had increased , and she swatted them angrily as they landed on her face and arms . |
| 23 | No I shall shove them out as they are . |
| 24 | We shall not discuss them here as they can be overcome . |
| 25 | Robinson , 28 , has found other counties unwilling to take him on as they are allowed only one such signing every five years . |
| 26 | The young women of the hareem , her foster sisters , cousins and young aunts scurried around her much as they do in any society , running errands , advising , gossiping . |
| 27 | She found herself smiling at him suddenly as they gained the shelter of the sitting-room and went in search of towels . |
| 28 | He looked her over as they reached the gallery , pausing at the top of the stairs . |
| 29 | This may make her feel that society regards her as a second-class widow , and you may need to help those who come into contact with her to understand how important it is going to be for her future adjustment for them to treat her just as they would any other bereaved person . |
| 30 | Florian praised her exuberantly as they retraced their steps a little later , having discussed the United States ' and Taiwan 's regulations and requirements concerning such exchange schemes . |