Example sentences of "[adv] as they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found herself smiling at him suddenly as they gained the shelter of the sitting-room and went in search of towels . |
| 2 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 3 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 4 | The poor Chinese footballers understandably got a coolish reception in their World Cup qualifying tournament here , especially as they spoilt the script by winning their opening match . |
| 5 | It was windy up on the ridge , and the ponies jogged impatiently as they reached the stretch of open turf which led over to the wood and the track through it . |
| 6 | Both the girls were small and looked exceptionally so as they crossed the Bridge with their handcart . |
| 7 | The approaching fleet , now seen to be wearing banners showing the Leopards of England , did slow down and bunch together as they approached the harbour entrance , to negotiate the fairly narrow channel . |
| 8 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
| 9 | Just as they reached the top and comparative safety , Lilley yelled for everyone to bale out . |
| 10 | Indraugnir 's strength failed just as they reached the Blighted Isle . |
| 11 | Is there any evidence that bats have " discovered " it too , just as they did the send/receive system ? |
| 12 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 13 | Just as they defended the school friends we disapproved of , so they are likely to stick to their own choice of girl or boyfriend . |
| 14 | As soon as they finished the first course Rodney raised his wine glass . |
| 15 | As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table . |
| 16 | He was pleased to see that as soon as they left the abbey gate , they were joined by the soldiers Sir James Selkirk had stationed near the abbey . |
| 17 | All except a couple of knights , which vanished as soon as they left the board itself . |
| 18 | Roberts 's ankle appeared broken , but the Chelsea players were not interested in retribution and the club , as soon as they knew the injury was less serious , put a message on the electronic scoreboard : an example of public relations from which others could learn . |
| 19 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
| 20 | They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 . |
| 21 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 22 | The three boys had always assumed , as soon as they reached the age for such assumptions , that Charles had married Liz in order to provide the three motherless babes with a proper family life . |
| 23 | But as soon as they reached the living room , she saw his face clearly in the light of the candles . |
| 24 | As soon as they reached the Embankment Father Watson began to speak in measured tones . |
| 25 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 26 | But WIN was leaking like a sieve , the Polish militia were told in advance and the men were picked up as soon as they touched the ground . |
| 27 | They were ready to move on the appointed day and , at the end of the summer , they would begin the trek back to the village on their own , as soon as they smelt the smoke of the bonfires in which the thatch and the bedding from the shielings were destroyed , for reasons which today we might classify as ‘ environmental health ’ , but which , to the young folk of the shieling , was almost a ritual . |
| 28 | I had sweat all over my face and as soon as they opened the door I just went for one of them . |
| 29 | As soon as they hit the ground he rolled , shoving Isabel beneath him . |
| 30 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |