Example sentences of "as they [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately . |
| 2 | Delegates rescinded the Freedom Charter 's commitment to comprehensive nationalization , confirming more recent statements by the leadership [ see p. 38516 ] as they agreed that emphasis should be placed on a mixed economy . |
| 3 | Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners . |
| 4 | Firstly , fibre-rich foods are more filling and thus satisfying , though of course they take more work to consume as they require more chewing . |
| 5 | As they exploit these opportunities , their competition pushes prices in directions which gradually squeeze out opportunities for further profit-making . |
| 6 | The study found , as we have implied for the UK , that local economic conditions were not to blame , as they had little impact on plant closures . |
| 7 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |
| 8 | If you must have chips do them thick cut , as they absorb less fat that way . |
| 9 | Whereas Siward , as a direct vassal of England , had appeared on every battlefield with his Northumbrian levies and knew their strength , as they knew each other 's . |
| 10 | And er they listened very carefully to us , in fact council of Kivanagh actually brought up a sample of the dinner they issued to old people and I , I did notice as soon as they put this sample on the table the opposition the c Conservatives and they still are , their heads bowed . |
| 11 | Angry that she had defied him and yet delighted at her little-girl behaviour , he reluctantly followed , then , holding her very close , walked her back up the stairs as they counted each step in unison . |
| 12 | As long as they get some exposure to written language , most learners will acquire at least a modicum of literacy . |
| 13 | The four , plus some genuine goodies like Alas Smith and Jones , The Goodies and Alexei Sayle 's Stuff , are about to experience a resurgence in popularity as they get another airing . |
| 14 | As they get more money , or a new baby is born , they add what is called another roof , which basically means another room . |
| 15 | So even if ministerial loyalties make it hard to admit it , he probably shares the apprehension which haunts many others as they contemplate this Bill : that though , at the end of the day , quantity will increase , quality will diminish ; or to put it in a form of words which trips easily off Conservative lips on other occasions — that More is going to mean Worse . |
| 16 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 17 | HEALTH ministers were accused of a massive ‘ leap in the dark ’ yesterday as they prepared another shake-up of the NHS . |
| 18 | Such works are normally used for the most unskilled tasks ; insofar as they receive any training , it is brief . |
| 19 | And as they use more plastic , chemicals and metals , so what they discard becomes increasingly durable and potentially poisonous . |
| 20 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 21 | As they rounded another bend she saw the lighted windows of the Swan Inn , relief swept through her . |
| 22 | Mark claims that all the people were astonished as they witnessed this contest between good and evil . |
| 23 | What possible justification can there be for that , given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year . |
| 24 | And as they push those systems harder , they will be able to move beyond their obsession with sales per store and think more about maximising sales per customer . |
| 25 | There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 26 | A potential trainer has to be at least 18 , educated up to GCSE standard in maths and English , plus a science subject , and be fit — as they walk many miles a day in all weathers . |
| 27 | The Planning Advisory Group thought it unlikely that there would be any more , and ‘ in so far as they show less detail ( eg town map primary school and minor open space allocations ) it may be less ’ . |
| 28 | Vertical aerial photographs , taken from directly above a site , are used mainly for plotting features on to maps as they show less distortion . |
| 29 | The mosquitoes and the noise of the guns were not as important as they seemed several days ago . |
| 30 | Listen out for their traditional cry of ‘ Shiver me timbers , Guv ’ as they pass each other along the grand canals of the West End . |