Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | They fought back as the enemy continued to bomb hangars and parked aircraft . |
| 3 | Darkling they drew off as best they could , dragging their wounded with them , carrying them when they dropped . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They hung on as the plane made an emergency dive to a lower altitude when they pulled him back on board . |
| 7 | They broke off as Cobalt joined them , unlocked the car . |
| 8 | Evidently this belonged to the couple , for they settled down as though at home and made no objection when Hazel did the same . |
| 9 | ‘ They flew out as we flew in . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Oxford came next they went out as favourites and were confident of pulling home first … |
| 13 | They looked round as he entered , their talk faltering . |
| 14 | There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition . |
| 15 | They looked up as he came quietly into the room , and he knew — immediately and instinctively — that his mother knew everything . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Boots are the ones worn by George Best aeons before they crapped up as motifs in Yohji shoe collections ’ |
| 19 | Meanwhile they carried on as they were and that went very well . |
| 20 | They made caches on their way out which they picked up as they returned . |
| 21 | They stood up as she approached , but there was no smile of greeting on the handsome face of the younger man . |
| 22 | They sat up as I came in , then relaxed when they recognised me . |