Example sentences of "[n mass] as they [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was standing at the door , greeting people as they came in , simpering and giggling and asking them how so-and-so was . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH relationships with parents determine in large measure our longer-term preferences , attitudes and values , during adolescence it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up . |
| 3 | The movement continued to grow and develop and to absorb new media as they came on to the market . |
| 4 | They were a very sober pair as they set out again for Gore . |
| 5 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |