Example sentences of "as they [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 2 | She began to feel a little differently , though when less than an hour later they entered Ven 's hotel suite and as she turned , about to give him her polite but none the less sincere thanks as they halted in the middle of the room , Ven looked down at her and got in first with , ‘ Are you tired ? ’ |
| 3 | The singer caught their quick look of recognition as they crossed in the doorway . |
| 4 | There she played most beautifully , pouncing on leaves and grasses as they blew in the wind , pretending to chase her own tail . |
| 5 | It is not difficult to imagine the exercise of these powers in the inner city areas of Britain producing the same reaction as they provoke in the riot-tom areas of Belfast and Derry . |
| 6 | They married in June 1789 , and a month later , in despair and rage , he murdered her as they walked in the darkness to the Castle of Comfort Inn . |
| 7 | Lady Fairbairn said they were peppered with pellets as they walked in the garden of Fordell Castle , their home in Fife , Scotland . |
| 8 | She had seemed quite tranquil as they walked in the sunshine through the crowded cathedral square where spectator stands were being erected ready for the Easter celebrations . |
| 9 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 10 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 11 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 12 | In Danzig it was not possible for the Nazis to proceed as they had in the Reich . |
| 13 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |
| 14 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 15 | This suggestion was , not surprisingly , refused by Mrs Thatcher , who , despite the fact that her Government used the guillotine in Parliament to ensure a jury can no longer have a say in the public interest , as they had in the trial of Clive Ponting , declared in a written reply to Baroness Ewart Biggs , that : |
| 16 | The funding councils no longer have the power , as they had in the original Bill , to direct institutions about how they should spend funds derived from private sources . |
| 17 | It was a source of satisfaction to him that his bridges found as ready a use in the civilian market as they had in the military . |
| 18 | They 're more or less as a , I do n't think there 's a great lot of difference onl I d I , they 're not pushing , they have n't the same , the , I would like to say , I would say they have n't the same interest in their union , they 've not the same interests in the union as they had in the earlier days when there was a union . |
| 19 | The tape controlled the entire show , including all lighting cues , and the stage manager would have little more to do than read his newspaper and greenlight the girls as they waited in the wings . |
| 20 | But today 's alert suggests Serbian rebels may now be prepared to fire on Hercules planes when they 're at their most vunerable , as they taxi in the airport perimeter . |
| 21 | It 's tacky it 's erm well as soon as they come in the door they wan na walk out and that that 's an overall opinion that 's not just me or a couple of mates that 's everybody . |
| 22 | As they progressed in the king 's confidence and service , their benefices became more numerous and more lucrative . |
| 23 | Voters left two dominant impressions as they queued in the hot sun — their determination to cast their ballots in the first free election since Germany began the European conquest of Namibia more than a century ago , and their orderly , disciplined behaviour in the searing heat . |
| 24 | Ace 's eyes were full of mocking laughter as they took in the discomfited expression on the journalist 's face . |
| 25 | The sharp black eyes gleamed with interest as they took in the situation at once . |
| 26 | Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres . |
| 27 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 28 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |
| 29 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 30 | A child was screaming in one of the flats , while two dogs were snarling as they fought in the wasteland beyond the apartment house . |