Example sentences of "as they were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war presented many one-off jobs for the older Girls , usually unpaid , as they were entertaining the troops . |
| 2 | While exploring the question of whether bees can use information about direction gathered on the flight back from the food , we transported foragers caught as they were leaving the hive for natural sources to an artificial feeder in the middle of a large car park hundreds of metres from the hive . |
| 3 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 4 | At Notting Hill Gate , as they were leaving the car , they found their way impeded by a uniformed official of London Transport Underground that the woman who said the holidays were too long had got hold of and was complaining to . |
| 5 | ‘ The messier the better , ’ she said , as they were leaving the shop . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect we shall run into you again , as English people do in Rome , ’ she added , as they were leaving the tea room . |
| 7 | As they were leaving the producer paused and smiled at her . |
| 8 | Detectives think someone may have seen the bombers as they were planting the devices . |
| 9 | Louise said , as they were re-arranging the drawing room when everyone had gone . |
| 10 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
| 11 | Two soldiers were injured , one critically , by a later bomb which exploded as they were searching the area . |
| 12 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 13 | I caught up with the others as they were entering the front door of the house . |
| 14 | No manufacturing assets were sold within the farm feed business as they were to provide the storage , grinding and blending capacity for the manufacture of pet foods . |
| 15 | As they were crossing the square , Willie tugged at Tom 's sleeve . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) For as long as they were presenting the case , the prosecution had done so on the footing that it was section 18 or nothing . |
| 17 | Paneth and Peters would never have been able to make helium from hydrogen as they were missing the neutrons ; replace the hydrogen with deuterium and you may have a chance of success . |
| 18 | Unfortunate woman erm , er , he as long as they were winning the war , was , was open in his admiration of Hitler and the Nazis . |
| 19 | The two figures could represent the Herculean task faced by William and Mary as they were offered the English throne in 1688 . |