Example sentences of "he [adv] as they [verb] " 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 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 3 | The screeching and thrashing was behind him now as they bundled out into the corridor , and Cardiff turned to slam the door shut . |
| 4 | They admired him even as they reviled him . |
| 5 | Hotspur watched the marred profile beside him curiously as they paced side by side , for he was greatly drawn to his prisoner , and could not reconcile the many stories concerning him with this man he had begun to know . |