Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] as they walked " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they had done was to pick ears of corn as they walked along , rub them in their hands and eat the grain . |
| 2 | The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party . |
| 3 | Their toecaps turned little scoops of dust as they walked . |
| 4 | The sky was thick with stars as they walked down the track towards Les Hiboux . |
| 5 | Lady Fairbairn said they were peppered with pellets as they walked in the garden of Fordell Castle , their home in Fife , Scotland . |
| 6 | Shae lapsed into silence as they walked along the road together . |
| 7 | The Christian neglect of the gods , indeed the propensity of the more militant to hiss in disapproval as they walked by a temple , offended polytheists , who feared that heaven would not be propitious : floods , plagues , famines , earthquakes were sent by angry spirit-powers who had not been placated with the customary offerings . |
| 8 | The poem , addressed in its final form to Charles Lamb , followed his friends in imagination as they walked first ‘ along the hill-top edge ’ , then descended to the waterfall in the ‘ roaring dell ’ at Holford , and climbed at last high into the Quantocks , from where they looked out upon ‘ the many-steepled tract magnificent ’ of the coastal plain . |
| 9 | Roirbak said to Tammuz as they walked to the hangar where the company rotor was housed . |
| 10 | It was a warm evening , the sun was still in the sky and Seb enjoyed chatting to Nahum as they walked . |
| 11 | " I do n't think , " she said to Enid as they walked through the tall wrought-iron gates , " I do n't think I shall be coming to Kew ever again . " |