Example sentences of "as they [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
| 2 | She shivered as they crossed to the west hill . |
| 3 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 4 | The pair became used to the waves and hoots from passing motorists , trucks and even train drivers as they journeyed to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 5 | Pumping air into these causes water to be sucked through with the bubbles as they rise to the surface . |
| 6 | Roirbak said to Tammuz as they walked to the hangar where the company rotor was housed . |
| 7 | ‘ No inspiration there for you , ’ Morgan commented as they walked to the elevator . |
| 8 | But as they walked to the taxi rank he said : ‘ Could you get into Bath in the week ? |
| 9 | Chrissie rose from beside the bed , and took Jack 's hand as they walked to the stairs . |
| 10 | As they walked to the car , Nicky tried to slip his arm around her waist . |
| 11 | As they walked to the terminal , Wiggs ran through the latest developments . |
| 12 | ‘ Remarkably well under the circumstances , ’ Kolchinsky replied as they walked to the lift . |
| 13 | Their fingers were linked as they walked to the car , but her body clamoured for more . |
| 14 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 15 | It was still snowing lightly as they walked to the Mercedes . |
| 16 | Greylag geese , pink-footed geese , wigeon , whooper swans and curlews are to be expected , the geese making a splendid sight ( and sound ) as they return to the loch in the evenings from October ( when there are many thousands in the area ) through to March . |
| 17 | As they come to the final fence Second Schedule being pressed by Ebony Jane and Bishops Hall on the nearside and over the last Second Schedule and Bishops Hall on the nearside , Ebony Jane in third , in fourth place is Joe White and racing into the closing stages it 's Second Schedule with Bishops Hall on the nearside Graham Bradley again as they go to the line , Bishops Hall wins it for Harry , Second Schedule is second , Joe White is third , Ebony Jane four . |
| 18 | As they go to the polls the voters know what package of compromises they are voting for . |
| 19 | Many observers believe that taxes could still be the deciding factor for millions of floating voters as they go to the polls tomorrow . |
| 20 | As they come to the final fence Second Schedule being pressed by Ebony Jane and Bishops Hall on the nearside and over the last Second Schedule and Bishops Hall on the nearside , Ebony Jane in third , in fourth place is Joe White and racing into the closing stages it 's Second Schedule with Bishops Hall on the nearside Graham Bradley again as they go to the line , Bishops Hall wins it for Harry , Second Schedule is second , Joe White is third , Ebony Jane four . |
| 21 | A NIGHTMARE looms for councils next year as they switch to the new council tax while still struggling to recover millions in unpaid poll tax . |
| 22 | Luke did n't answer her immediately , but the grey eyes were eloquent as they dropped to the tiny champagne-coloured skirt the slenderness of her legs made permissible , then travelled upwards again in slow appraisal of her strapless matching bustier , encrusted with transparent beads and revealing both her smooth olive-toned midriff and the upper swell of her high , proud breasts beneath the single fine circle of gold she wore about her neck . |
| 23 | A feathery pattern of ice covered the mud of the yard and cracked under their feet as they ran to the privy , and it was n't much warmer indoors . |
| 24 | ( They try ‘ West End Girls ’ but as they get to the line about The Finland Station , Wayne somersaults over the keyboard , does that crap dance that vaudevillians do where they move their hands across their knees , makes a shadow puppet of a seagull in the beam of one of the lasers , does the hitch-hike from Saturday Night Fever , and gobs on Derek Jarman . |
| 25 | Almost as soon as they took to the air , other invertebrates — the spiders — started setting traps for them . |
| 26 | George was pushed from her mind as they took to the tiny space allocated for dancing in Margaret Forrester 's front room . |
| 27 | His dealing with the witnesses now had a different purpose , and he was employed to sift their informations as they related to the alleged treason of Shaftesbury , sitting with Richard Graham , the government solicitor , ‘ ten hours at a time without moving ’ . |
| 28 | The aim of the project was to examine various aspects of the functioning of financial markets especially as they related to the personal sector . |
| 29 | The debate over the respective roles of nuclear and conventional arms was inevitably bound up with questions of authority and influence within Nato , especially in so far as they related to the possible use of nuclear weapons , and to their proliferation within the alliance . |
| 30 | Their outsides remained functional ; it was only their insides , in so far as they belonged to the bourgeois world like the newly devised Pullman sleeping-cars ( 1865 ) and the first-class steamer saloons and state-rooms , which had décor . |