Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] as " in BNC.

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1 With that the three of them made off as best they could .
2 I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen .
3 None of them looked up as they passed .
4 Tucked in battle-dress pocket , gas-mask holder or factory overall , they created a link between the civilian and military worlds , and in the years of rationed poetry and imaginative confinement , it is no surprise that they sold out as soon as they appeared on the bookstalls . ’
5 They fought back as the enemy continued to bomb hangars and parked aircraft .
6 Darkling they drew off as best they could , dragging their wounded with them , carrying them when they dropped .
7 And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly .
8 They fanned out as they approached , and the Hearthwares on the catwalk produced bows from the sheaths at their backs and notched them with pale-fletched arrows .
9 They hung on as the plane made an emergency dive to a lower altitude when they pulled him back on board .
10 They broke off as Cobalt joined them , unlocked the car .
11 Evidently this belonged to the couple , for they settled down as though at home and made no objection when Hazel did the same .
12 They flew out as we flew in .
13 LUCINDA Murray and Mary Thomsom have a similar aim as they started out as Burghley three-day event leaders in today 's cross-country section at Stamford .
14 They started off as bynames — nicknames , sobriquets and such — to distinguish two persons in the same locality who might be called Alfred , Edgar , Edith or Ethelhild , or to mark some outstanding characteristic .
15 Oxford came next they went out as favourites and were confident of pulling home first …
16 They looked round as he entered , their talk faltering .
17 There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition .
18 They looked up as he came quietly into the room , and he knew — immediately and instinctively — that his mother knew everything .
19 With ‘ triumphant anxiety ’ , they looked on as the boy worked of an evening at his ‘ sheep-hooks and tar bottles ’ ( handwriting exercises ) or struggled with ‘ a knotty question in Numeration or Pounds shillings and Pence ’ .
20 In the absence of any alternative network of support provided by the politics they participated in as employed men , the labour movement , they are thrown on a charitable sector dominated by a punitive and puritanical morality .
21 Boots are the ones worn by George Best aeons before they crapped up as motifs in Yohji shoe collections ’
22 Meanwhile they carried on as they were and that went very well .
23 They made caches on their way out which they picked up as they returned .
24 They stood up as she approached , but there was no smile of greeting on the handsome face of the younger man .
25 They sat up as I came in , then relaxed when they recognised me .
26 " A gift … " he began and them hurried on as Patrick started to shake his head .
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