Example sentences of "[verb] as they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her spirits rose as they left the ugliness of London behind . |
| 2 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 3 | Some indeed , Ramsey recounts , supposed as they saw the fires in rioting Bristol reflected in the night sky , that the English revolution had begun . |
| 4 | Leonora snatched her hand away , her eyes hunted as they scanned the large , square hall . |
| 5 | The cab swerved into the Place de la Concorde , she felt them whirling as they joined the vortex round the obelisk as if in a fairground swing as it lifts and spins . |
| 6 | The Russian followed , shouting as they neared the superstructure door . |
| 7 | Even so , they might all be shot as they crossed the moat with their explosives , or wounded before they could leave , having planted them . |
| 8 | What a dump , ’ she added as they entered the village . |
| 9 | She took it , fingers trembling as they grasped the fragile stem and felt the warmth of his touch . |
| 10 | The pines on the lower edge fragmented his view of the meadow so that his first clear sight of the cabin 's rear came as they reached the quarry top . |
| 11 | The two policemen took statements from the servants about the last known moments of the occupants of the manor , and from Seb , Tom and Carrie , who described what they had seen as they approached the manor house the previous night . |
| 12 | McIntosh and Hendley , of Breadsall , Derby , met as they planned the wedding of her son Shane and his daughter , Kay . |
| 13 | Both Greene and Cloke were jeered as they passed the post and cries of ‘ cheats ’ greeted them as they rode their mounts back to the unsaddling enclosure and were hauled before the stewards . |
| 14 | All over Europe sailors had been accustomed to drawing a meridian through a point in their own country or through the furthest point to the west out in the Atlantic that they could determine with any certainty , and English sailors had usually taken their fixed meridian from a point west of the Lizard ( the last promontory of land they could see as they left the English Channel ) . |
| 15 | Her fingers shook as they traced the familiar outline of chest and shoulders , strong back , flat stomach . |
| 16 | There was no sign of either George or the sheep , and Elizabeth sighed as they entered the kitchen . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's no need to ask if you enjoyed that , ’ Ven commented as they left the bridge and he looked down into her eyes , which were shining with pleasure . |
| 18 | He was subdued now , and his feet dragged as they approached the end of the bridge . |
| 19 | Paula began as they entered the living room and she placed the tray on the table , then began to fill the cups . |
| 20 | But who would think of refusing Lucy 's invitations , providing as they did the last vestige of a social occasion within the enclave ? |
| 21 | The cheering swelled as they passed the stands , and as they turned down the hill for the second circuit Taaffe could no longer restrain Arkle , who took up the running . |
| 22 | selves , ’ he observed as they approached the Tower for a second time . |
| 23 | The same is true of wherever Britain 's Victorian engineers ventured as they built the empire in those last decades of the 19th century . |
| 24 | And then , in a very orderly way , and with a strange bell-like tinkling , the coffin broke into a collection of long icicle splinters , that rang and vanished as they touched the earth . |
| 25 | Switching parts around , old push-rods and rockers and changing the studs to fit , we all cheered as they pulled the propeller through . |
| 26 | A BBC spokesman said : ‘ Our reporter Tom Carver was forced to run as they stole the vehicle . ’ |
| 27 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 28 | As they neared the top of the street , Patrick slowed as they neared the Royal Hibernian Hotel , but their guide continued on … and that left only one major hotel in the vicinity . |
| 29 | The need for maritime work remained , although it was clear that the anti-submarine role was no longer a possibility ( although in those days , Soviet submarines and surface shipping were still something to be feared as they passed the Cape in both directions ) . |
| 30 | Back home , impatient sports editors waited for them to file as they drank the Latium hills dry of Chianti . |