Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 2 | That OR play a team like Aston Villa home or away as they try and win whatever … so you always get open games . |
| 3 | The obligation to provide free school milk and to provide school meals was removed , allowing LEAs to provide milk or meals or not as they wished , at whatever cost or standard they chose ( including free milk or meals , if they wished , for families on low incomes ) , apart from a responsibility to provide free meals for children of families receiving Supplementary Benefit or Family Income Supplement , and to provide facilities free of charge for pupils to eat food brought from home . |
| 4 | And to an old person , ‘ setting the record straight ’ , or straight as they saw it , could be very important . |
| 5 | I had learnt during my journey in 1930 that the Danakil , or Afar as they called themselves , were divided into the Asaimara or Red Men , who comprised the tribes of noble descent , and the Adoimara or White Men . |
| 6 | Once or twice as they waited for the ceremonial to begin he saw the eyes of the Annamese sovereign shift anxiously in their direction and he dabbed occasionally at his pale perspiring face with a silken handkerchief that he held concealed in one of his voluminous sleeves . |
| 7 | as I said earlier erm I suggested to them that perhaps as they went out so much perhaps one the company would do it , they sounded quite enthusiastic |
| 8 | ‘ What happens is that just as they are about to speak , they take a quick breath , ’ explains Angela Caine . |
| 9 | Here children like her and others are studying for ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels knowing that soon as they leave school they go right on the dole . |
| 10 | Long moments later he lifted his head from hers , his eyes darker than ever as they gazed at her . |
| 11 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 12 | Gaining the tar-sweated hill with my mother 's lean legs pumping swiftly , the willowy sight of streaky high dunes on the horizon awaited us , waving to and fro as they did , sheltering an occasional beige box of a house , a modern cube . |
| 13 | The night before , and through the morning into the afternoon , the Wolverines had rampaged from level to level , always moving as quickly and confusingly as they could . |
| 14 | Expressionless , their ill-fitting jackboots thumping up and down as they marched , the soldiers approached the lone kilted figure . |
| 15 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 16 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |
| 17 | Maybe I says it as should n't , but they 're not a pair I like , educated and all as they may be . |
| 18 | Sister Mary Leahy , who organised the prayer week at Seacroft , explained the purpose of these personal interviews ; ‘ Prayer is a relationship with God , so as a prayer guide , I would want to help people to recognise God in their lives — relating person to person — speaking to God and listening to him — coming to God just as they are and not as they think they ought to be . ’ |
| 19 | Obviously this is achieved by attending to lift stoppages as they occur and not as they are reported and , in addition , the lift monitoring devices record all events affecting the operation of the lift which provides a detailed case history , which in turn leads to speedy and accurate diagnosis and correction . |
| 20 | And just as they were about to leave , as if to make a grand exit of it , O kissed Boy again , very publicly . |
| 21 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 22 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 23 | A strong wind chased the rain over their heads and away as they approached , and the trees tossing beside the walls made the outline of the huge house appear to tremble , as if it might roll over and crush all the homes of the people who depended on it . |
| 24 | If their hours of work can also be limited to less than 16 hours a week , then these workers will also fall outside the employment protection legislation , which means they can be used even more flexibly and cheaply as they then forgo rights to certain occupational benefits ( which now comprise a further 9 per cent of labour costs ) . |
| 25 | Er and they developed these skills , as I said earlier , basically for their husbands for use in inclement weather and gradually as they obviously got to m make more and more they got these to trade . |
| 26 | ‘ The seating on older buses is replaced to make it comfortable and the buses are easier for people to get on and off as they have a lower floor . ’ |
| 27 | It was filled with rows and rows of towering bookcases that seemed to sway back and forth as they disappeared into the darkness at the top of the room . |
| 28 | He regarded the men beneath him impassively , his eyes flicking back and forth as they looked up at him . |
| 29 | He began to apply the cooling foliage to her skin , turning the leaves back and forth as they took on her body heat . |
| 30 | She is as honest and upright as they come , but has landed like a ton of bricks on younger members of staff whose behaviour she does n't approve of . |