Example sentences of "[v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Today they 're coming forward as they see their rights being taken away . ’ |
| 7 | Now shipwreck looters brave a police helicopter circling overhead as they carry their spoils away by bicycle . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | There are certain bars where artists and writers are always to be seen , talking animatedly as they set the world to rights . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nobody expects Brigadoon with tartan-skirted villagers singing softly as they fill your arms with sweet heather and invite you in to their fireside . |