Example sentences of "as they [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By placing a tethered owl under a tree , the branches of which had been covered with sticky lime , it was possible to trap small birds as they gathered to mob the bird of prey . |
| 2 | They were used to heavy work as they had to run the crofts & do all the work themselves when their husbands were away on the boats . |
| 3 | He said the Government had failed to understand the depth of feeling amongst unionists , especially as they had to share the council chamber with Sinn Fein . |
| 4 | She immediately fell into conversation with Jack as they waited to board the mini-bus that stood in the centre of the courtyard , ready to transport them to the Parc de Prafance with its famous forest of bamboo . |
| 5 | In London Whigs and Dissenters not only organised counter-demonstrations , where they burnt effigies of the Pope , the Pretender and Tory defectors , but they also engaged in vigilante activity , as they sought to suppress the activities of the Jacobite crowds . |
| 6 | And she was initially awed by the plots which the girls concocted as they sought to shame a particular teacher or fellow pupil , or simply to escape at impermissible hours from the school grounds . |
| 7 | As they began to turn the silver handle with the strange , serpent-like beasts engraved deeply into it , Fenella felt the Melanisms creep nearer . |
| 8 | She stopped his hands as they began to release the buttons . |
| 9 | But as they began to see the possibilities of the data highway , they also realised that they did not have the technical expertise to build the sorts of switched networks necessary to bring it off . |
| 10 | Katherine asked as they began to descend the gently curving marble staircase . |
| 11 | As they began to gather the berries , eating the sweetest , darkest red ones , and putting the rest into their baskets to take home , the sun came out . |
| 12 | The others paddled and scrambled over somehow and as they began to reach the other side , Hazel plunged . |
| 13 | ‘ Both of us are going to regret this , ’ Lucenzo muttered , as they began to cross the bleak , unprepossessing square . |
| 14 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 15 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 16 | Communications between them and Rough Trade came to a standstill as they prepared to undertake a short Scottish tour , and from this odd situation a strange story came to light . |
| 17 | ‘ Bit spooky 'en it , ’ Mary whispered as they prepared to climb the short steep bank in front of them . |
| 18 | There Capirossi had Gresini , Casanova and Doriano Romboni on his side as they fought to repulse the attack of title rival Hans Spaan . |
| 19 | Two youths attacked and robbed two members of staff as they went to bank the day 's takings from a fruit shop in Raby Street , Byker , Tyneside . |
| 20 | Anna linked her arm with Merrill 's as they went to rejoin the men . |
| 21 | Its eight-man crew also perished as they strived to rescue the Santampa 's crew . |
| 22 | LANCASHIRE looked to Neil Fairbrother for inspiration as they struggled to set a winning target in today 's Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final against Leicestershire at Grace Road . |
| 23 | ONCE again , Arena failed to turn in the level of performance of which they are undoubtedly capable as they struggled to overcome a depleted but game Novas ' side 54–47 in the men 's division of the Mid-Essex Gravel League . |
| 24 | FOREST 'S dismal season reached crisis point as they failed to beat a keeper who only this summer was struggling on the dole . |
| 25 | Protestors greeted members of Oxfordshire health authority as they arrived to discuss the future of Banbury 's Horton Hospital . |
| 26 | Many of the musicians were unused to working with dancers and once when the band was out of tempo , the Girls started singing as they danced to get the music synchronized . |
| 27 | On Jan. 13 three men were shot dead by two soldiers in plain clothes as they attempted to rob a betting shop in Falls Road , west Belfast . |
| 28 | Later that year a combined army of men led by Sigmar and Dwarfs led by King Kurgan met and defeated a huge horde of Goblins and Orcs as they attempted to cross the Worlds Edge Mountains at the Black Fire Pass . |
| 29 | In 1981 and 1982 the group had visited the test site with their ship the Vega and on the last occasion had been attacked and arrested by the French Navy as they attempted to enter the 12-mile territorial limit . |
| 30 | Gqozo said he had been forewarned of a coup plot , and the two conspirators were stopped by a police road block as they attempted to enter the capital , Bisho , from the direction of Transkei . |