Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her office desk sits a picture of mother and daughter laughing together as they stroll through the Lake District . |
| 2 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |
| 3 | She opened her eyes and saw a river , its surface shaking beneath the icy draught , the ducks bobbing slightly as they followed one another , seeking sanctuary . |
| 4 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 5 | you often get down the Tornados coming , whizzing down , below you , you know you 're looking down as they come past |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It worked out as she hoped ; Tommaso was hanging about outside in the square with a group of other young men , smoking and strolling around to join the girls drawing the evening water at the fountain ; he came near her ; to her surprise , she saw he was n't smiling , not like the others , who were laughing and exchanging remarks , between themselves , grinning strenuously as they play-acted contempt for the young women they wooed . |
| 8 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 9 | The superb choruses , picking up as they do lines from various Crabbe poems , inherit the point-of-view of his editorial stoicism . |
| 10 | The castle dogs crept closer to the flames also , snapping lazily as they squabbled for their accustomed places near the warmth . |
| 11 | I have as much right to know what 's going on as they do . |
| 12 | " Jack " , in Dublin , had been to bars and meeting-places , had made inquiries , had met this man and then that , reporting back to Bert and Jasper that things were going on as they should . |
| 13 | The coach was just pulling in as they arrived . |
| 14 | He started the bike , eased it forwards and suddenly they were tilting over as they went round the corner . |
| 15 | F. Four New Towns have been growing rapidly as they attract some of the population to better housing and new jobs in their own footloose industries . |
| 16 | This composition — two figures moving across one another and turning back as they do becomes a regular ‘ strife-motive ’ in classical art ; the west pediment of the Parthenon ( fig. 132 ) is a major example . |
| 17 | People lied about their intentions up to the moment of voting and went on lying even as they left the polling stations , saying they had voted for Labour when they had voted Tory , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Winged shapes , clattering eerily as they swerved through the air , were descending towards them . |
| 19 | Severini , who had signed the manifestos but was not exhibiting , had come to Milan to ask Marinetti for financial assistance , and he advised that the Italian painters should visit Paris before exhibiting there as they intended . |
| 20 | A hundred yards away across the rain-drowned compound Dong and Hoc were weeping openly as they embraced their father in the blackness of their leaking barrack hut . |
| 21 | In his analysis of the popular culture which appeared among the promoters of the Pro-Life Campaign , set up to achieve a constitutional ban on abortion in the Republic in 1983 , O'Carroll pin-points certain characteristics , which can be abbreviated here : a monolithic and absolute view of the world , with its accompanying intolerance , derived in part from the direct consultation of clerics and politicians on public moral issues and the subsequent failure to develop an ethos of public debate ; a localized belief system , rooted in family and communal authority and issuing in a spirit of absolute conformity ; sexual prudery , a product partly of the inheritance problem ; and the development of acute anxiety when such beliefs — inhering partly as they do in their practice and shaping of society — are threatened . |
| 22 | A couple of bare-breasted girls in sarongs were returning from the communal laundry , the washing balanced on their heads , their breasts moving gently as they sauntered by , giggling at some private joke . |
| 23 | The yachts are slowing down as they approach Fremantle and the effect of the high-pressure zone becomes apparent . |
| 24 | The yachts are slowing down as they approach Fremantle and the effect of the high-pressure zone becomes apparent . |
| 25 | Again we see the same anxiety : social stability depended crucially on people staying just as they were ( identity ) , where they were ( location ) , and doing what they always had done ( calling ) . |
| 26 | Dot wanted to tell her how they were much better staying just as they were . |
| 27 | Doctors were hurrying to him now , lifting him with careful , expert hands , speaking soothingly as they helped support him and half carry him back towards the wards . |
| 28 | They cleaved to each other , lips hard against lips , bodies crushed together , her heels against the small of his back , clinging there as they bucked and dived , soared and plummeted together . |
| 29 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 30 | They said ‘ Do n't let it happen , ‘ Leave 'em all hanging out as they are . ’ |