Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two youths attacked and robbed two members of staff as they went to bank the day 's takings from a fruit shop in Raby Street , Byker , Tyneside . |
| 2 | Network offers no comment other than its good wishes to both members of staff as they continue their academic careers at Napier University . |
| 3 | To put all this another way , Chicago represented for its sociologists an ideal case study area in which to test the grand theories of sociology ; the changing social relations resulting from a shift from a pre-industrial to an industrial society , the effects this had on the individual and what Goffman was later to call the ‘ moral careers ’ of people as they managed ( or indeed failed to manage ) with the circumstances and institutions in which they were caught up . |
| 4 | THE SNORTING TRAIN sent steam swirling through the buzzing crowd of people as they swarmed from the platform into the open wagons drawn up at Leicester station . |
| 5 | The journey , by either route , is at least twelve thousand miles and the birds fly non-stop , sustaining themselves by diving into the sea for fish as they go . |
| 6 | He had a feeling that the Archbishop of Canterbury was now too powerful in the Church ; that he and the other bishops were more like sheep as they sat saying yes to what Canterbury suggested . |
| 7 | The angles should always add up to 720° as they did in question 13 . |
| 8 | The anxiety , hardship and distress suffered by people as they wait for decisions from the Home Office are obvious to anyone . |