Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversations of the ‘ Lunatics ’ , as they were called , would often carry on as they took advantage of the moonlight to find their sometimes uncertain way home over the ruts and rubbish in their path . |
| 2 | The Gulf states will do exactly as they are told . |
| 3 | I just thought I should do exactly as they said . |
| 4 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 5 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 6 | He brought it up , let it look about as they came to another junction . |
| 7 | The approaching fleet , now seen to be wearing banners showing the Leopards of England , did slow down and bunch together as they approached the harbour entrance , to negotiate the fairly narrow channel . |
| 8 | One or two of the instructions are ambiguous , some of the parts do not fit together as they are supposed to and more than a little initiative is required to complete the project . |
| 9 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 10 | Likewise the hand sign might mean ‘ continue ’ or ‘ would that things remain roughly as they are now , in lumps or in intervals . |
| 11 | What principles do children rely on as they analyse the structure of words and make use of their knowledge ? |
| 12 | It is obvious that things can not go on as they are . |
| 13 | Things could n't go on as they were without something happening , and she had intuitively known that when it did her life would be forever changed . |
| 14 | It enables individuals to overcome some of the accessibility/mobility problems outlined above ; they can come and go largely as they please , use the services they wish and enjoy a wide range of social , business and leisure contacts , conditioned only by the time that is available for driving from place to place and the running costs of the vehicle . |
| 15 | What stages do they go through as they acquire new words ? |
| 16 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 17 | Times were changing , and he began to realize that things would never go back as they had once been . |
| 18 | They can go there as they did with the industrial conferences , but we have to make this careful balance between parts of our membership . |
| 19 | Onions will be ripening in the sun now , and the tops will bend over as they do so . |
| 20 | Both the armies of this pincer movement probably travelled quickly , without extensive commissary , relying on what they could pick up as they laid the land waste . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if they are not enforceable , it would be the banks , with whom the transactions were arranged , that would lose out as they had taken out further deals to offset their exposure . |
| 22 | In the light from the glowing pillars they could see it twist and settle slowly as they disturbed it . |
| 23 | The enemy models may not fight back as they are too surprised to react in time to return blows . |
| 24 | So in the Zande system , even when things do not turn out as they should , the ultimate effect is a reinforcement of faith in the efficacy of mystical power . |
| 25 | Charlie explains that some people blame her when the weather does not turn out as they had hoped . |
| 26 | If you are convinced that he or she is going to hurt you and you ca n't escape , you may even hit out as they come forward . |