Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please check opening times locally as they are subject to variance . |
| 2 | Like this they bound slowly down the boulevard , with him laughing and kicking people 's hats awry as they come arcing back on to the pavement at the end of each step . |
| 3 | The saucy six RUN their hands up the men 's legs just as they are about to make a vital shot . |
| 4 | In fact , ‘ have a nice day ’ was originally coined as a deliberately longer and more personal message to have ringing in customers ' ears just as they walked off the premises , instead of the terminal ‘ bye ’ or ‘ see yah ’ , so they 'd come back . |
| 5 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 6 | Have you ever watched people reading to themselves , slow readers who move their lips silently as they read ? |
| 7 | He believes that manufacturers simply need to be aware of the electromagnetic environments surrounding their products just as they would be aware of temperatures . |
| 8 | Even the Wolfe Tone Societies , the one section of the republican movement which had a well-worked-out strategy for the civil rights movement , were unable to implement their plans exactly as they had intended . |
| 9 | Gibbon launched a three-pronged attack from the north , north-west and west , cutting the Indians down as they stumbled from their lodges . |
| 10 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 11 | " Spain has managed to maintain those areas much as they have been since the Middle Ages , because industrial development here has been much slower than in other European nations . |
| 12 | I went round all the hospitals in Edinburgh and Leith all the doctors surgeries and there was nowhere and I ended up at the the women 's unit in Edinburgh City Chambers and I got help from the women 's unit and er from there we started a pressure group to get more literature to people , you know to get them into doctor 's surgeries so as they would know what to do , what to expect . |
| 13 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 14 | The approach to the building is through a thick rubble wall of granite enclosing a hanging garden which embraces patients and visitors alike as they enter . |
| 15 | And in my view what they could n't achieve on that night in Parliament in the nineteen forties is now being achieved by stealth , slicing bits and pieces away as they go along . |
| 16 | Lewes would lead his group to Agheila two days later as they would have less distance to cover . |
| 17 | The conifers are as varied and successful a group of plants today as they have ever been . |
| 18 | George has asked if Pat could possibly get teaching or worship tapes for the Christians there as they are very short of any kind of material , especially the Filipinos who can not get anything from home . |
| 19 | They remembered this two hours later as they stood on the meadow in front of the big house at Fortingall , waiting for a crowd to gather . |
| 20 | About five minutes later as they watched its dying effects a great sound wave enveloped the ship . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 22 | And another little slice , " Mrs Kelleher offered ten minutes later as they sat , Silly-Willie sprawled like a baby on his mother 's lap , and Nicandra , remote and sedate , quite Miss-of-the-Manor now , sitting on a stool under a picture of the Pope . |
| 23 | But , in the final resort , EC government leaders can make the rules up as they go along . " |
| 24 | Ambulancemen left their lights on as they rushed into Steve Andrews ' house where 16-year-old Sara Jayne had a heart attack . |
| 25 | At the end of the article he writes : ‘ We may say , if we like , that the introspected mind is just a body and its goings on as they appear to the body in question and not to anybody else . |
| 26 | Cranston , breathing heavily , looked down , curiously watching the figures below as they scurried around like black ants on the various tasks of the garrison . |
| 27 | Little by little the Grants began to do more things together as they came to trust each other , and to find enjoyment in each other 's company . |
| 28 | They looked at the same things together as they walked through the ruins of Milan . |
| 29 | You should jot questions down as they occur to you during the talk . |
| 30 | But when they 're doing these welding jobs they have n't got them on those things so as they 're doing it like it 's all moving and |