Example sentences of "as they [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She listened for Patrick 's cry but the only noise was from the Kenny children as they squabbled over a piece of bread , and Maggie was sitting on the bed with the baby sucking in vain at her scrawny breast . |
| 2 | In the uranium mines , workers breathe in radioactive dust as they dig out the metal ore which contains the valuable element . |
| 3 | You get a sort of lighthouse flash from the headlights , as they swing round the curve there and out of sight . |
| 4 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 5 | KENT went run crazy yesterday as they piled up a 603 for eight — their highest total since 1934 — against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 6 | Newport were understrength , but Gloucester were on full power as they piled up the points . |
| 7 | The Marquee crowd — a muddle of college indie kids and rock fans in assorted Gunners chic — react with an equal mix of abandon and pose , the kids at the front looking like they 've got heads on springs as they crowd round the monitors . |
| 8 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 9 | I watch the men and women as they crowd along the streets or sit in their cars and vans and buses and trucks , and their freedom seems inestimably precious , exotic and vicariously intoxicating . |
| 10 | Donald , Pringle , Snell and McMillan all looked healthily hostile as they blew away the cream of Australian batting for under 200 , and Hudson showed touches of class as South Africa won by nine wickets . |
| 11 | The second point is that many people lean forwards as they slap down the opponent 's punch and so you need to remember that there are two fists to worry about here , not one ! |
| 12 | As a result , the Marines experienced no resistance as they jogged down the hurriedly lashed gangplanks , and spread out across the docks . |
| 13 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 14 | The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction . |
| 15 | Shivering in their nakedness , and all shorn of their hair , the actors kept on only their stage boots as they walked back the way they had come . |
| 16 | ‘ No need to get shirty , ’ Marler responded mildly as they walked along a quiet , carpeted corridor . |
| 17 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 18 | He continued to talk thus now , as they walked down the grand vista , away from the formal gardens and into the woodland rides , where classical figures loomed from the undergrowth and the serpentine rill wound away towards a distant temple . |
| 19 | Further , many could not afford to undertake such pomp as they had neither the capital , credit facilities , stock , staff nor expertise ; some simply did not have the inclination to become involved . |
| 20 | Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage . |
| 21 | As they had daily a more intimate acquaintance with , so they had a more endeared affection for , each other . |
| 22 | George was frowning in thought as they clattered up the prison-like stone steps to his set . |
| 23 | All bedrooms have en suite or private facilities and colour TV , their attractive wooden shutters are always appreciated as they block out the dawn chorus — traffic noise is not a problem ! |
| 24 | He shrugged , feeding the steering-wheel expertly through his hands as they roared round a corner . |
| 25 | Finally a UK-designed packaging plant wraps up palette loads of printers as they come off the production line . |
| 26 | Finally a UK-designed packaging plant wraps up palette loads of printers as they come off the production line . |
| 27 | We might ask desk officers to make an initial selection of important records as they come off the live system . |
| 28 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 29 | This is the way the young sharedealers feel as they put out the bait and hook in the mugs . |
| 30 | But company executives accept that there must have been a leak as they put together a financing package to back their bid for Dixons . |