Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 2 | You hear beep beep all night long as they try to pass each other . |
| 3 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 4 | To use an analogy from short sight : people who wear glasses are relieved of the effects of their short sight for as long as they continue to wear them and for as long as they remember that there are still some things ( such as seeing clearly underwater ) that they can not do even if they are wearing glasses . |
| 5 | Correspondingly the Anonymous Fellowships enable recovering people to surmount their handicap for as long as they continue to follow the recommendations of the Fellowships and not believe that they are " cured " for all time and can handle " responsibly " the substance or process of addiction once more . |
| 6 | Maybe just having the space to say all the things they want to say , including the difficult and confusing things , as often and for as long as they want to say them , is what they seek help and support with . |
| 7 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 8 | He said the Government had failed to understand the depth of feeling amongst unionists , especially as they had to share the council chamber with Sinn Fein . |
| 9 | As the ubiquity of stellar coronae had only just been discovered with the Einstein Observatory , the absence of coronae for stars of this type was tantalizing , especially as they seemed to disappear rather rapidly ( on an evolutionary timescale ) . |
| 10 | Little by little the Grants began to do more things together as they came to trust each other , and to find enjoyment in each other 's company . |
| 11 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , just as they began to beat their hasty retreat , the bell for the start of school rang . |
| 13 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 14 | She forced it up and down , just as they seemed to do in the movies . |
| 15 | SHOOTING and shouting will be the key factors for Portsmouth at Villa Park tonight as they attempt to finish with a bang in a season which , after promising so much , could end in double disappointment . |
| 16 | As soon as they began to talk , you realised that this was not a diffuse collection of misfits , suitable cases for treatment or counselling . |
| 17 | As soon as they began to walk along the shops Owen was very glad that she had come . |
| 18 | But as soon as they come to rest the wings close and the animals become completely cryptic again . |
| 19 | They must be kept scrupulously clean and as soon as they start to feed on flesh — at about three weeks — the nest can be removed and new straw added . |
| 20 | At a very early stage of growth , the embryos of a fish , a reptile and a mammal may be virtually indistinguishable , but their development proceeds in different directions and the class to which they will belong is defined as soon as they start to acquire more specialized features . |
| 21 | Mercy is going to be shown as merciful , so as soon as they start to fight Mercy starts trying to forgive Cruelty and Cruelty easily wins . |
| 22 | So as soon as they start to fight Mercy starts trying to forgive Cruelty and Cruelty easily wins , whereas he wants to say of course that Cruelty , in this God-governed universe , is going to be defeated by Mercy . |
| 23 | That of Clark draws attention to the phenomenon of speech repair in two-year-olds , where speech errors are spontaneously corrected , indicating that children must have awareness of language at some level virtually as soon as they begin to talk . |
| 24 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 25 | FURIOUS relatives were grappled to a courtroom floor yesterday as they tried to attack a killer joyrider . |
| 26 | This was as near as they dared to approach to avoid the risk of fire damage to the vehicles . |
| 27 | Adults gradually come to recognize and forgive nameaphasia , probably as they come to experience it more and more themselves . |
| 28 | This transformation came about as companies expanded to take advantage of mass production methods and associated economies of scale and integration , and also as they strove to limit the competitive forces to which they were subject . |
| 29 | They left their goods behind as they strove to find their Canaan . |
| 30 | McGilligan 's views will meet with general approval and reflect the mood in the Derry camp just now as they prepare to meet Dublin on Sunday week . |