Example sentences of "[n mass] as they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like any other European colonialists , they were content to rely upon the services of interpreters from among the local people as they advanced farther into unknown territory . |
| 2 | To the north-west of Lake Baikal it was the Evenkis who absorbed Ket people as they advanced westward to the Yenisei and beyond . |
| 3 | THE SNORTING TRAIN sent steam swirling through the buzzing crowd of people as they swarmed from the platform into the open wagons drawn up at Leicester station . |
| 4 | Now , many people as they retrieved their fingers from the handshake were likely to tell you that their husband had just fathered an illegitimate child and ask your advice on how to proceed , or offer to give you the telephone number of their analyst/acupuncturist/homeopath/hypnotist who had been so helpful over their drink problem . |
| 5 | He was standing at the door , greeting people as they came in , simpering and giggling and asking them how so-and-so was . |
| 6 | To put all this another way , Chicago represented for its sociologists an ideal case study area in which to test the grand theories of sociology ; the changing social relations resulting from a shift from a pre-industrial to an industrial society , the effects this had on the individual and what Goffman was later to call the ‘ moral careers ’ of people as they managed ( or indeed failed to manage ) with the circumstances and institutions in which they were caught up . |
| 7 | The the next advertising route captured the ‘ Haagen-Dazs ’ moment by conveying sensual intimacy between two people as they shared a pot of Haagen-Dazs . |
| 8 | In other camps rats lived under the seats and bit people as they sat there naked . |
| 9 | ‘ For those were troublous times , ’ he said on a downward-curving cadence , ‘ and such times have come again , but take heart : for ‘ when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted , he said unto Moses , There is a noise of war in the camp . |
| 10 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 11 | Joyce then had the task of making sure each child was in place for the morning " Holiness " meeting , while Captain and Mrs Burrows welcomed people as they arrived . |
| 12 | Cleaning up contamination is wonderfully labour-intensive : some old military sites being cleaned up by the Department of Energy now employ twice as many people as they did at their peak of production . |
| 13 | The movement continued to grow and develop and to absorb new media as they came on to the market . |
| 14 | Two youths attacked and robbed two members of staff as they went to bank the day 's takings from a fruit shop in Raby Street , Byker , Tyneside . |
| 15 | He has dismissed warnings from the Office of Fine Arts that it is forbidden to deal in State property , quoting the former assistant secretary of state L. de Graaff , who in 1984 stated that the artists were free to do with these works as they wished . |
| 16 | His daughter Masha was careful to deposit in the synagogue 's library copies of his works as they appeared , to the great appreciation of those who minded such things . |
| 17 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
| 18 | The gang expected to net £5,000 as they ambushed a wages clerk on her drive back from the bank . |
| 19 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
| 20 | In the centre , the dark-haired boy stood , head cocked on one side , concentrating intently on the pair as they completed circuit after circuit . |
| 21 | The angles should always add up to 720° as they did in question 13 . |
| 22 | He had a feeling that the Archbishop of Canterbury was now too powerful in the Church ; that he and the other bishops were more like sheep as they sat saying yes to what Canterbury suggested . |
| 23 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |
| 24 | His father had thought it would be a good idea to ask for the boats to be blessed at a time when Whitby Harbour was crowded with the big Scottish fleet which was following the herring as they moved south . |