Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] as they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 2 | Spectacular scientific advances have come from them just as they have from other institutions . |
| 3 | No if we er do something so as they have a checklist and we can all , you know like me and Jim say , have a copy to say oh right , can we take your name and address , telephone number |
| 4 | Can we have big fobs on them or something so as they do n't put the bloody things in their pockets ? |
| 5 | But we can buttonhole anyone we please as they leave the chamber : a privilege akin to the London correspondents of Pravda or Izvestia being able to accost cabinet ministers in the members ' lobby of the Commons . |
| 6 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They low as they push and shove . |
| 9 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 10 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 11 | Do n't worry : this type of behaviour is a normal part of children 's development , but they usually leave it behind as they grow up . |
| 12 | Contrary to expectations studies show that most people continue to regard themselves positively as they grow older . |