Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | And to an old person , ‘ setting the record straight ’ , or straight as they saw it , could be very important . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maybe I says it as should n't , but they 're not a pair I like , educated and all as they may be . |
| 10 | And just as they were about to leave , as if to make a grand exit of it , O kissed Boy again , very publicly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He regarded the men beneath him impassively , his eyes flicking back and forth as they looked up at him . |
| 18 | He began to apply the cooling foliage to her skin , turning the leaves back and forth as they took on her body heat . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Since a child 's ability to produce a particular sound will vary according to the speech context ( Ingram 1976 ) , the Goldman-Fristoe test samples speech sounds in three positions within words ( initial , medial and final ) and also as they occur in sentences . |
| 21 | This transformation came about as companies expanded to take advantage of mass production methods and associated economies of scale and integration , and also as they strove to limit the competitive forces to which they were subject . |
| 22 | And whilst you 've heard comment from Mr last week about the County Surveyor 's view that the capacity of the radials really outside the City and also as they enter the City , the key impact within the City of York is on the inner ring road , because all the traffic tends to end up there . |
| 23 | And now as they descended on Geneva , she pressed her forehead against the pane of the oval window and breathed deeply . |
| 24 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 25 | And even as they fouled up long-held theories on what was sexy , they gave a whole new dimension to perceptions of ‘ womanhood ’ . |
| 26 | All of them were occupied , but , without even a word from Guido , the proprietor snapped his fingers , and even as they were being led towards it an extra table was being laid . |
| 27 | FROM their very beginnings therefore , and increasingly as they went on , the Iran and contra policies departed even from the strange norms of covert operations . |
| 28 | However , agile and fast as they are , they are sometimes outwitted by sea-lions who lie near the breaking surf off the beaches and come dashing ashore to grab a bird in the ‘ danger zone ’ of the shallow water . |
| 29 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 30 | And then as they hatched you see , you used to take them in into the incubator then . |