Example sentences of "as they [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grey herons contorted to strange shapes as they stretched long necks and peered into the shallows . |
| 2 | Two campaigners , an Englishman and a Frenchman , brushed away tears as they recalled 453 airmen who never returned from World War 2 sorties . |
| 3 | Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately . |
| 4 | Two dolphins joined in the fun , their tumbling , lithe bodies clearly visible as they weaved sparkling trails of fire at high speed under our bows . |
| 5 | Playing the Little Sweep , his clothes were to be ripped off one by one by the Big Sweep and Assistant Sweep -played by the headmaster and French master — as they sang three verses , and then he was to be thrown up the chimney . |
| 6 | Delegates rescinded the Freedom Charter 's commitment to comprehensive nationalization , confirming more recent statements by the leadership [ see p. 38516 ] as they agreed that emphasis should be placed on a mixed economy . |
| 7 | Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners . |
| 8 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |
| 9 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales tried to steal one another 's thunder yesterday as they swapped traditional roles . |
| 10 | As they pitched one client after another , the dealers surrounding them would cheer , shouting " Go . |
| 11 | Only Lieutenant Cherry , my husband , and Leading Seaman Webster were left of that crew , as they had good reasons for leaving her . |
| 12 | The study found , as we have implied for the UK , that local economic conditions were not to blame , as they had little impact on plant closures . |
| 13 | Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago . |
| 14 | She said she did not accept under-fives at school received true nursery education as they had inadequate resources and the pupil-teacher ratio could be three times that at nursery schools . |
| 15 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |
| 16 | The basis for that submission was that the officers ought to have arrested offenders as soon as they had sufficient evidence . |
| 17 | Travelling by horse and camel caravan , as dictated by the terrain , they would have to be self-sufficient for all of their needs as they traversed vast plains and mighty forests , mountain passes and arid deserts , experiencing great extremes of heat and cold . |
| 18 | Whereas Siward , as a direct vassal of England , had appeared on every battlefield with his Northumbrian levies and knew their strength , as they knew each other 's . |
| 19 | A third man joined them as they sought new sticks . |
| 20 | Angry that she had defied him and yet delighted at her little-girl behaviour , he reluctantly followed , then , holding her very close , walked her back up the stairs as they counted each step in unison . |
| 21 | Austrian hat manufacturers wept with emotion as they offered untold wealth for a single specimen . |
| 22 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 23 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 24 | HEALTH ministers were accused of a massive ‘ leap in the dark ’ yesterday as they prepared another shake-up of the NHS . |
| 25 | As they conquered peninsular Italy and Sicily in the third century BC , the Romans took works of art and dedicated them to the gods at Rome . |
| 26 | As they rounded another bend she saw the lighted windows of the Swan Inn , relief swept through her . |
| 27 | The female member of Scott Bramwell 's Delmas team suffered severe altitude sickness as they reached 12,000 feet and she had to retire . |
| 28 | As they got one face off we 'd turn them , over , the pans had to be turned over and backs built you see ? |
| 29 | Mark claims that all the people were astonished as they witnessed this contest between good and evil . |
| 30 | There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’ |