Example sentences of "as they [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he envied more the great herring gulls and black-headed gulls which he watched through the bars of his cage as they soared on the summery winds , the white and grey of their feathers caught brightly by the sun as they banked into a turn . |
| 2 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 3 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 4 | The book is based on the year that Mackay spent in London in 1887–1888 and describes events of that Jubilee Year , especially as they touched on the lives of the socialist and anarchist German exiles there . |
| 5 | She was beside him and she had taken his arm as they waited on the pavement across the road . |
| 6 | Look out too for Chardonnays from elsewhere as they come on the market — for instance from Chile . |
| 7 | From the dozen or so per week when the band is in the studio , there will be up to 100 per week as they go on the road . |
| 8 | May I thank the Prime Minister for allowing his Ministers to vote as they wish on the Wild Mammals ( Protection ) Bill on Friday 14 February , St. Valentine 's day ? |
| 9 | Same system as they use on the aircraft . |
| 10 | And this is a Sotino which is a quality brand in those days , I , I , do n't know if it still is , I assume it is , erm , which was not advertised at all , and although the Rolex 's and so on in this world have been heavily advertised as they came on the market , Sotino 's never really was , so my father had a struggle I suspect selling . |
| 11 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 12 | This suggests that the foreign exchange markets are now more sensitive to actual and prospective interest rate developments , especially as they impact on the key reserve currencies . |
| 13 | The Group Environmental Policy Committee whose composition and objectivities are described below , is responsible for making recommendations to the Board regarding the Group 's activities as they impact on the environment and for implementation of approved courses of action . |
| 14 | As they drove on the A183 dual carriageway the brick was thrown , penetrating the windscreen like a bullet , Mr Bensley said . |
| 15 | ‘ God , I did that well ! ’ he cries , as they sit on the café terrace sipping vermouth . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard to a girl called Rose he meets at a party , as they sit on the stairs around two in the morning , talking seriously , her dark eyes looking up seriously into his , ‘ I 'm the best mountain-designer in the universe . |
| 17 | As they land on the seabed , flatfish flap up the sand in a sudden flurry of rapid movements , and then quickly lie perfectly still . |
| 18 | ‘ Forty per cent of holly bushes have been lost , ’ said Will , ‘ and trees are actually being uprooted by the weight of the birds as they land on the branches . ‘ |
| 19 | They trailed across the plain of her stomach and the twin mounds of her breasts ; glinting gold as they lingered on the silk between her thighs . |
| 20 | Dividend payments are not fixed , and they are much more difficult to estimate as they depend on the overall performance of the firm . |
| 21 | Even warranties and indemnities do not provide complete protection to the offeror , as they depend on the financial resources of the people providing them . |
| 22 | As they lay on the hillside in each other 's arms , George Broomham outlined his plan to Dorothy . |
| 23 | It is the perfect name for you , ’ as they lay on the grass in the Boboli Gardens , sheltering under the trees from the fierce afternoon sun . |
| 24 | As they lay on the floor , he went at Pascoe with knees and elbows , everything uncoordinated , getting a blow in to the cheekbone and then a knee close enough to the groin to make Pascoe panic . |
| 25 | As they lay on the great four poster bed , their bodies entwined , Maude almost lost in Cranston 's great fat folds , Sir John stared up at the ceiling , brushing his wife 's hair with his cheek , listening to her chattering about this and that . |
| 26 | Chirac did n't even know where to go while Le Barre was speaking on an empty white platform with no chairs , and when it was his turn to speak he had no chance of a good clean start because he had to shake hands with Le Barre as they passed on the stairs . |
| 27 | The story is told of two top executives from different agencies who would wave to each other , one from his chauffeur driven Jaguar and the other from his Porsche , as they passed on the M4 when buzzing up and down to important clients . |
| 28 | After they hit the racquet they make another , more resonant sound , as they bounce on the ant soil surface , a sound you can hear on television when tennis is played at Stade Roland Garros . |
| 29 | Gurney 's poems celebrate his love of the Gloucestershire countryside with the same unsentimental vigour as they report on the realities of trench warfare and chart his gradual descent into madness . |
| 30 | He sat looking at his hands as they rested on the table , palms down , the fingers softly drumming . |