Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope we get a replacement , ’ Müller said heartlessly as they settled down to work . |
| 2 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 3 | Gold ( 1958 ) suggests that the researcher may be : ( a ) a complete participant , concealing his true identity and intentions from the group , and living entirely as they do ; or ( b ) a participant-as-observer , actively involved in the group , but they know the researcher is not really one of them ; or ( c ) an observer-as-participant , a less common mode , usually involving a brief visit with limited participation . |
| 4 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 5 | Then , just as suddenly as they had grabbed at his throat , the hands released his windpipe and the weight lifted off him . |
| 6 | And then , as suddenly as they had appeared , they vanished . |
| 7 | Her tears dried as suddenly as they had appeared . |
| 8 | They were gone as suddenly as they had come . |
| 9 | As suddenly as they had begun , the two men disengaged , as though some unspoken signal had passed between them , and resumed their wary circling . |
| 10 | And how many times , on re-entering occupied space , did the phenomena depart as suddenly as they came ? |
| 11 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 12 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 13 | And then , just as suddenly as they 'd started , they stopped . |
| 14 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 15 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 16 | She found herself smiling at him suddenly as they gained the shelter of the sitting-room and went in search of towels . |
| 17 | All the males of the Khedive 's family tended to thicken out and age suddenly as they approached middle age . |
| 18 | It appeared quite suddenly as they turned a sharp bend , an imposing stone edifice with ivy-clad walls , set among tall poplars , well back from the road . |
| 19 | He looked at his watch pointedly as they met . |
| 20 | After this phase of the experiment was over , subjects were allowed to sleep as much as they wished , but continued to keep sleep diaries for a year . |
| 21 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 22 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 23 | The patriarchal values of the countryside seem unthreatening by contrast , much as they do in Francesco Rosi 's film Three brothers , in which a similar transaction between city and countryside is followed through . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Much as they admired him and loved him , he seemed to have let them down . |
| 26 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 27 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 28 | ’ Some of the older staff have reacted by attempting to do the job much as they have always done it , which means , in effect , engaging in various minor acts of deviance from new bureaucratic demands in order to minimize the trouble caused . |
| 29 | " 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's called Henry , ’ she said idly as they walked along , ‘ after my grandfather , and also I think after my father 's elder brother , who died in a railway accident . |