Example sentences of "they [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched them suspiciously as they plodded through the soft , dry sand all churned-up with trippers ’ footprints . |
| 2 | Zuwaya and Magharba tellers also counted them unofficially as they went in . |
| 3 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 4 | Spectacular scientific advances have come from them just as they have from other institutions . |
| 5 | She saw them just as they saw her , and waved to them — with disastrous results . |
| 6 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
| 7 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 8 | Brushing past the tall ferns , she noticed that the halo of flies buzzing around her head had increased , and she swatted them angrily as they landed on her face and arms . |
| 9 | We shall not discuss them here as they can be overcome . |
| 10 | They low as they push and shove . |
| 11 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |
| 12 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 13 | The women watched them curiously as they mounted the stairs . |
| 14 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 15 | When she threw five eggs ( and the hens were laying badly ) at the kitchen maid , he caught them cleverly as they sailed through the air . |