Example sentences of "as they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably Tom 's fellow commuters sincerely enjoyed their Sunday morning Martinis , just as they enjoyed shining the tail-fins and chrome of the Plymouth and cutting their grass with power mowers ( power mower sales quadrupled ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Children read incomplete sentences such as " the dog ran after the … " , and as they finished pronouncing the final word , which was always the word " the " , a completing word was presented . |
| 4 | The fields became parched and brown and the cattle required additional concentrate feed much as they had done the previous year . |
| 5 | As soon as they had turned the corner , however , he put his paper down and headed for the row of pay phones that lined the wall . |
| 6 | Most chairmen continued to believe , as they had told the Ministry in July 1953 , that ‘ the role of tariff policy , taken by itself , in improving the load factor of the system is not capable of much further advance . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As soon as they had left the room , Nancy took off her shoes and crept silently up the stairs to listen in the passage — as she had done once before . |
| 9 | She sat down at the table for two Roman had selected , and tossed her hair back from her face ; Roman had pulled the pins out as soon as they had left the hotel and placed them in his pocket . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As they began to turn the silver handle with the strange , serpent-like beasts engraved deeply into it , Fenella felt the Melanisms creep nearer . |
| 14 | She stopped his hands as they began to release the buttons . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Katherine asked as they began to descend the gently curving marble staircase . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The others paddled and scrambled over somehow and as they began to reach the other side , Hazel plunged . |
| 19 | ‘ Both of us are going to regret this , ’ Lucenzo muttered , as they began to cross the bleak , unprepossessing square . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 23 | They 'd drawn the odd inquisitive glance as they 'd entered the dining-room of the Shelbourne , but Mahoney had been convinced that was because of the way Donna looked . |
| 24 | ‘ Bit spooky 'en it , ’ Mary whispered as they prepared to climb the short steep bank in front of them . |
| 25 | There Capirossi had Gresini , Casanova and Doriano Romboni on his side as they fought to repulse the attack of title rival Hans Spaan . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Anna linked her arm with Merrill 's as they went to rejoin the men . |
| 28 | His way was blocked by the Ambassador and Culliman , talking politely about gardens as they came through' the french windows . |
| 29 | Its eight-man crew also perished as they strived to rescue the Santampa 's crew . |
| 30 | Protestors greeted members of Oxfordshire health authority as they arrived to discuss the future of Banbury 's Horton Hospital . |