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 . |