Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So fish are aware of the popply , slapping noises that other fish make as they travel at speed through the water , of the clicks made by crustaceans snapping their hard shells and the scrapings made by fish grazing over the coral . |
| 2 | ‘ When you see people weeping as they sing the swelling choruses of Jerusalem , ’ says Peter Morgan , director-general of the Institute of Directors , ‘ you 're listening to people who hate everything about industry and have a bucolic dream — and who are also Fabians , and see business leaders as slave-drivers . ’ |
| 3 | The talk that night was about experiments carried out to explain why people behaved as they did , and we were told of different types of neurotic people and how they could be classified . |
| 4 | The main problem that people encounter as they begin to practise the Alexander Technique is the same as Alexander experienced when he was developing his Technique , that is , an unreliable sensory feedback mechanism . |
| 5 | The principal purpose of this book is to examine Ronald Reagan 's efforts to deal with these problems ; to examine the techniques he and his staff used as they sought to break free from the ties that bound them ; and to assess how successful Reagan was in mastering the system of government and in achieving his policy objectives . |
| 6 | The general idea of selecting communities which were interrelated in this way on the dimensions of status and ethnicity was to ‘ match-up ’ linguistic data from the four areas , so as to obtain some fairly detailed information on the linguistic strategies which Belfast people employed as they moved from urban vernacular to slightly higher-status speech patterns . |
| 7 | Give this to people to do as they arrive . |
| 8 | The cold and dishevelled hunger strikers gave speeches and ‘ many people wept as they spoke ’ ( Nathan 1985 : 216 ) which further stirred up emotions . |
| 9 | Those sausages were a credit to Mother because she knew just the seasoning they required , and we would hang them up in the kitchen for people to eat as they pleased . |
| 10 | The present project is concerned with establishing such editing demands during the course of learning with the aim of investigating the strategies people employ as they try to comply . |
| 11 | The Department needs to know about the incidents that staff experience as they do their work , in order to plan to make working conditions safer , and to train staff in the best ways of dealing with violence if they meet it . |
| 12 | Triggers are important because they help us understand why people behave as they do . |