Example sentences of "[prep] they as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creep will also say things like , ‘ Oh , I know just how you feel ’ or ‘ I hear what you say ’ , and by the end of the interview you 'll know as much about them as they know about you . |
| 2 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 3 | The salts dissolved in the oceans do not reside there permanently , rather they cycle through them as they pass from crystalline to sedimentary rock . |
| 4 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 5 | ‘ The thought of not being there for them as they grew up was too much to bear , ’ she said . |
| 6 | A SOLDIER who supplied transport for two younger youths intent on burglary , and kept watch for them as they carried out a theft , was fined over £300 by Alton magistrates on Tuesday . |
| 7 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 8 | Time ceased for a while for them as they kissed and held each other . |
| 9 | Felipe was out of the water and waiting for them as they arrived at the place where the lake quietly lapped the path . |
| 10 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 11 | Probably his supposed intention was a pure fiction of the monks ' imagination , but the remembrance of a lost opportunity was a heavy burden for them as they watched their rights being pared away under successive kings and archbishops . |
| 12 | The surgical team were scrubbed and in Theatre ready , but Andrew Barrett , the paediatrician , was waiting for them as they pulled up . |
| 13 | He loved the ritual and the quiet sense of harmony between them as they walked along , and the things they talked about . |
| 14 | She sensed a strained explosive atmosphere between them as they exchanged small talk . |
| 15 | Nor was she unaware of the interest Matt and Silas took in her movements , having caught glances passing between them as they paused to watch her fold the table napkins round the knives and forks which were left in readiness to be picked up from the end of the table . |
| 16 | There was no contact between them as they toured the magnificent sixth-century shrine . |
| 17 | He was joined there by Amanda 's brother , Norton ( now Lord Romsey ) , and his fiancée , Penelope Eastwood ; and although the cousins had never been especially friendly before , a strong bond grew between them as they talked day after day , trying to make sense of it all . |
| 18 | Married couples will have the option of splitting the married couple 's allowance between them as they choose . |
| 19 | Couples and Love , America 's top two golfers this year , were irrepressible , gathering 13 birdies between them as they ripped apart the La Moraleja course , suggested as a venue for the 1997 Ryder Cup . |
| 20 | At least there was someone to look after them as they wandered about from place to place . |
| 21 | The bald-headed man stared placidly towards them as they approached . |
| 22 | A man came towards them as they pulled up , and Robert said , ‘ This is George — the head keeper . |
| 23 | He attended without wavering as she took him round to the head of the little dale , above the cottage , pointing out the hare 's field below them as they went . |
| 24 | He writes of them as they stay for waftage : |
| 25 | I did not succeed in evading the notice of either of them as they had the advantage of knowing what would come next . |
| 26 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 27 | The agricultural reform , on which a constitutional amendment was tabled on Nov. 7 , put an end to the land distribution programme begun after the 1910-20 revolution , allowed private companies to buy agricultural land and form associations with co-operative farmers ( ejidatarios ) , and permitted the farmers , who currently had only the use of their plots , to own and dispose of them as they wished and , with the approval of their co-operative , to form joint ventures with private investors . |
| 28 | Klift spoke for all of them as they looked around the sloping entranceway . |
| 29 | This is an unacceptable to most of them as they believe that such service furthers military aims . |
| 30 | The Adobe technology is to be integrated with those components of SunSoft 's X11/NeWS Network-extensible Windowing System and SunPic 's NewsPrint system that can still offer specific advantages to Sun users , but Ybarra concurs with other observers who argue that in light of the deal there is now little future for either of them as they exist now and that a name change is only a matter of time . |