Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as they [vb base] " 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 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 5 | I do n't think they blare away as they come into the hospital . |
| 6 | And they are habitat for the millions of mallard duck , Canada geese , American widgeon and other waterfowl that pause here as they cruise the Atlantic Flyway toward warmer climes each autumn . |
| 7 | For each factor , the results of the survey are presented firstly as they apply to Solihull secondary teachers as a whole . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most people look downwards as they negotiate the pot-holed road that leads into the village of Perteguhan in North Sumatra . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The general question of the relational effects of these means of production is discussed in Chapter 4 , but some of their institutional effects are noted here as they occur . |
| 12 | ‘ You , Sir , ’ he wrote to Sir John Franklin , ‘ fully understand this pleasure particularly when one 's visits are directed to a fresh field abounding with novelties ; if I find my labors as much rewarded here as they have been in V. D. Land , I shall consider myself amply paid . ’ |
| 13 | None the less , both sexes spend much of their time in pairs or small groups , doing largely as they please : playing , fishing , catching butterflies for sale to traders , and so on . |
| 14 | I smile easily as they go |
| 15 | The second point is that many people lean forwards as they slap down the opponent 's punch and so you need to remember that there are two fists to worry about here , not one ! |
| 16 | References are numbered sequentially as they appear in the text , followed by those in tables and finally by those in figure legends . |
| 17 | ‘ Today they 're coming forward as they see their rights being taken away . ’ |
| 18 | Time started again as they lay panting , their hearts beating as one . |
| 19 | Now shipwreck looters brave a police helicopter circling overhead as they carry their spoils away by bicycle . |
| 20 | This attitude can , for example , be seen in a limited expression of empathy ( teenage boys and girls laughing and joking together as they help relatives of a dead baby dig a grave , for example ) . |
| 21 | There are certain bars where artists and writers are always to be seen , talking animatedly as they set the world to rights . |
| 22 | It 's a lovely world , beautiful world but it 's the people in it you see who are spoiling things so much and I do n't understand youngsters you see but because young people erm there , there was a time when youngsters just er do just as they like and they were n't reprimanded by the parents , whereas my parents were very strict you see and it did n't do me any harm and I 'm glad now that they were . |
| 23 | Team loyalties are thrown aside as they form a group they call l'autobus . |
| 24 | A bit of activity out on the water catches my attention next and I bring the ‘ scope out ; it is a small party of long-tailed duck in their handsome winter plumage , the long tail-streamers of the drakes showing clearly as they display to the females . |
| 25 | All this applies to open-ground sowings , and of course it is the crops from these that move fastest as they suffer no transplanting adjustments . |
| 26 | Nobody expects Brigadoon with tartan-skirted villagers singing softly as they fill your arms with sweet heather and invite you in to their fireside . |
| 27 | Unless we are more attentive , the Guatemalan refugees are about to be ignored again as they suffer this time not from the cold war , but the ‘ new world order ’ . |
| 28 | Further publications targeted at specific user groups are now in preparation and these will be circulated widely as they become available . |
| 29 | Joe steals two bus tickets to Miami , but Ratso dies just as they reach the place of his dreams . |