Example sentences of "[n mass] as they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cleaning up contamination is wonderfully labour-intensive : some old military sites being cleaned up by the Department of Energy now employ twice as many people as they did at their peak of production . |
| 3 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
| 4 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
| 5 | The angles should always add up to 720° as they did in question 13 . |