Example sentences of "as they get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they get steadily more drunk they sing loudly so that their voices fill the tunnels of the Worlds Edge Mountains and echo through the Dwarf strongholds . |
| 2 | As they get nearer , though , the vision fades . |
| 3 | Their sizes diminishes as they get farther away from their source area in the Tyrrhenian Sea ( figure 4.1 ) . |
| 4 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 5 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 6 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 7 | Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there |
| 8 | As they got closer , they saw it was rising from a burning truck . |
| 9 | As they got closer to the centre they appeared to change colour . |
| 10 | As he got more excited as they got closer to Pollensa so Ruth sank into a deeper depression . |
| 11 | As they got nearer they could see it was some-one , head and shoulders clearly visible . |
| 12 | " That 's Maurice 's pub , " she told him , " he 'll be in there now " , and , as they got nearer , " I wish the Venice lantern was still there , it looked nice at night , " but in reality there was no need to say very much . |
| 13 | The country was green and flat and featureless as they got nearer Hackballs Cross , with high hedges and few signs of human habitation . |
| 14 | And yet , I 'm quite sure that as they got nearer and nearer to Bethlehem their feelings would have changed a little bit . |
| 15 | The smoke enveloped the beast completely , and yet through the smoke , as they got very close , Little Billy could just make out the enormous black shadow of some hairy monster . |
| 16 | As soon as they got home , Anne started getting Abigail to bed . |
| 17 | I noticed that its wing and tail feathers faded out gradually as they got further away from its body , so that the sun was peering through near the tips as the feathers became thinner . |
| 18 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |