Example sentences of "as they [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 2 | I had forgotten how large they were ; they seemed enormous , and there were so many of them , circling overhead , clustered in a tree or hopping about as they squabbled over carrion . |
| 3 | BR could not avoid passing its dramatically increased costs following the oil crisis on to its customers , especially London commuters , and as they reduced in number ( demand falling at 1 per cent a year ) services , stock and facilities were reduced to ‘ match demand ’ , inevitably causing poor morale . |
| 4 | Unrestricted access to industrialized country markets , the report said , would increase developing countries ' export earnings by US$55,000 million , as much as they received in aid [ see p. 37476 ] . |
| 5 | Thus the church added twelve through ‘ biological growth ’ as they became of age for church membership . |
| 6 | The news had spread like the Great Plague as they gathered for Assembly , and underneath the frank , animal sensationalism of their reception of the news there was uncertainty , and fear . |
| 7 | Further down I saw kittiwakes , with their gentle dark eyes and neat nests ; below them , in deeper crevices , the ugly shags with their uglier young , showing the brilliant apricot gape of their beaks as they craned for food . |
| 8 | With the Pakistan ball-tampering row at its height , Gower has embarrassed Lord 's by claiming the 1990 India tourists scuffed the ball at The Oval as they pressed for victory . |
| 9 | As they crossed in front of the Queensway Tunnel for the final sprint up William Brown Street , 23-year-old Nadobenko was going so fast he mounted the kerb and bounced back but still had the strength to cross the line in first place . |
| 10 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 11 | Many bishops emerged as the saviours of their cities as they arranged for famine relief and secured the ransom of prisoners during the years of crisis . |
| 12 | This sort of behaviour was tiresome but bearable and , as they walked to Druid 's Grove , Carrie thought she quite liked him . |
| 13 | Farmers had demonstrated , as they had to Arch in the 1870s , that once the seed is in the ground they can happily watch it grow and starve their workers , if necessary , into submission in the meantime . |
| 14 | Under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle , provisionally signed on 30 April 1748 , and finally concluded on 18 October , which ended the War of the Austrian Succession ( and of Jenkins 's Ear ) , the French agreed — as they had in relation to the Old Pretender under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 — to recognise the Hanoverian succession and to refuse shelter to those who challenged it . |
| 15 | ‘ Why Cotswold Lion , I wonder ? ’ she said , looking around the pub , as they waited for lunch to be brought to them . |
| 16 | ‘ You still have n't told me about your adventure , ’ Cinzia reminded him as they waited for Palottino to arrive . |
| 17 | Many families would eat nothing that day as they waited in hope for Ramlal to return . |
| 18 | He half-closed his eyes and listened to plopping sounds in the water for the place swarmed with frogs , and the buzz of the bees as they hunted for honey amongst the flowers . |
| 19 | It was difficult for them to appreciate that [ h ] -loss could ever have been anything else but a stigmatized form : in so far as they knew of evidence for it in earlier centuries , they tended to dismiss it , seemingly in the belief that ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ careless ’ usage is not implicated in linguistic change . |
| 20 | In the end , Lamb 's men had 10 overs in hand as they cruised to success . |
| 21 | Caroline glanced at Nicolo as they strolled from vendor to vendor . |
| 22 | As they cycled along side by side , Deirdre put a comradely hand on Jacob 's shoulder , as if to deny any accusation in her words . |
| 23 | As they searched for money , Helen , 63 , ran out of the house and screamed for help . |
| 24 | The middle 30 per cent owned land but did not employ labour , as they relied on family members . |
| 25 | From Malton the Scots sent no fewer than nine men and eighteen horses to Bridlington to take as much bread , wine and beer as they wished in exchange for a somewhat qualified immunity . |
| 26 | As they stepped from grass to gravel , a long dark green Mercedes two-seater swept towards them , accelerating fast . |
| 27 | Outside , at eight o'clock , the streets were already busy with sweepers , a watering-cart , shop assistants , police blowing whistles , bicycles , scooters , not many cars , the voices of the lottery ticket vendors , schoolchildren screaming as they ran to school , carts pulled by donkeys braying , trucks hooting , an ambulance siren — it all added up to utter confusion . |
| 28 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |
| 29 | As they queued for breakfast , three screws pushed meal trolleys from the kitchens . |
| 30 | He 'd used an Armalite semi-auto on the creatures as they stampeded from crag to crag . |