Example sentences of "[noun] as they [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was forced to one side as they bundled their way in . ’ |
| 2 | Once in the lead there was no stopping the home side as they reinforced their gathering momentum with five second-half tries . |
| 3 | She glanced at Guido and saw that his eyes were fixed on Silvia , who was following behind Jeff as they made their way down the landing plank . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough 's battle-weary troops were cheered by thousands of fans as they made their way to a civic reception in an open-topped bus . |
| 5 | Brothers in arms Greg ( left ) and Jonny Searle let their feelings show after their sensational victory over the apparently invincible Italians Carmine and Giuseppe Abbagnale — and an emotional cox Garry Herbert ( right ) joins the brothers as they celebrate their golden moment |
| 6 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 7 | It was all there in his eyes as they assessed her confusion — awareness , desire and worst of all a confident masculine knowledge of his own sexual power and her susceptibility to it . |
| 8 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 9 | The womenfolk would no doubt be beside the wood stove , talking over the din of the roof as they did their needlework ; the men would be in the wool-shed , cleansing and grading the fleeces in time for the next lorry down to port . |
| 10 | It means constant activity above their heads as they perform their already risky stunts . |
| 11 | Earlier this week we joined them in Hungary as they rehearsed their display for the Fairford show . |
| 12 | The ‘ startling ’ facts about increased education spending under the Tories would ‘ leave many parents , teachers and administrators gasping in disbelief as they pick their way through pot-holed playgrounds to book-starved classrooms , ’ he added . |
| 13 | Unless it was the soft pressure of his lips as they nuzzled her throat … |
| 14 | There was no doubt in the minds of the directors of the polytechnics as they received their formal designations from the end of the 1960s that the polytechnics were to remain distinctive . |
| 15 | They were good , big bells , the bells of St Saviour 's , and when they rang that crisp Saturday morning in December , the echo of their music returned across the harbour to the people of Polruan as they made their way up the hill to see the two couples joined in matrimony . |
| 16 | The dolphins , engrossed in feeding on an anchovy school , fall to detect the vessels as they make their stealthy approach . |
| 17 | Fight like men , or kiss the Campbells ' feet as they trample our faces ? ’ |
| 18 | Men , standing nobly upright on two feet as they take their bladder relief , tend to look all around them , focusing on a glorious horizon and fantasising about being master of all they survey . |
| 19 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 20 | ‘ There do your kind fly , Slorne , soaring on the winds that rise up from the hot land , circling over their sites as they seek their prey of mammal and carrion , or chase a black-winged kite from off their food … ’ |
| 21 | Almost all of the 32 works on view have a collage of inserts taken from the world of advertising among their drawn work as they continue their extended storylines . |
| 22 | The Natural History Museum in London moved into its present building in the 1880s , and a statue of Owen still greets visitors as they enter its main hall containing the great dinosaur skeletons . |
| 23 | Keep them from all panic as they put their trust in your power to keep . |
| 24 | Menzieshill still enjoy a three-point advantage with two games to play , but there is now no margin for error as they meet their main contenders , Kelburne , in a final game tomorrow night at the McTaggart Centre . |
| 25 | Some of the early groups joining the Modular Course as they faced the same problem of replacing London external degrees ( humanities and social science ) felt the strong hand of management as they exercised their ‘ academic ’ decision to join . |
| 26 | I did n't even wait for the curtain call and the audience must have seen me charging through the lobby as they made their way out . |
| 27 | Residents of William Street , North Skelton , have petitioned Langbaurgh Council as they fear their houses and cars are sitting targets for vandals during hours of darkness . |
| 28 | HOLYWOOD — Coach Norman Crawford 's squad is along the same lines as they defend their League and Kirk Cup titles . |
| 29 | Greens hope to rally crowds to block the road-building crews as they hack their way into the thick forest . |
| 30 | They made a sound like hysterical laughter as they played their games . |