Example sentences of "as they [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |
| 2 | However , as soon as they remove the weather-vane , several things happen very rapidly . |
| 3 | Others , struggling to get air-borne again , are driven backwards by the bow-wave of the surging sharks as they break the surface . |
| 4 | The only alteration in her face was the pucker of her lips melting into a pout of unrelieved gloom as they shut the door behind them . |
| 5 | The poor Chinese footballers understandably got a coolish reception in their World Cup qualifying tournament here , especially as they spoilt the script by winning their opening match . |
| 6 | The beetles immediately started running around in circles chalking the ground , and falling over themselves as they stretched the tape measure across from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 7 | The Russian fleet managed to destroy the Turkish fleet and that caused Britain and France considerable concern as they feared the Russians , so they joined Turkey in March 1854 . |
| 8 | On Saturday 16 February SPAG decided to take legal proceedings against Mogul , as they feared the company would continue to do nothing to rectify the situation . |
| 9 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 10 | Finally , the judicature Acts in 1873–5 abolish the old Court of Chancery , as they abolish the Common Law Courts and certain other courts , and establish a new court — the High Court of justice — which has all the powers of a Court of Common Law and a Court of Equity , and in which both sets of rules , the rules of Law and the rules of Equity , are administered ; but in which , if there is ‘ conflict or variance ’ between them , the rules of Equity are to prevail . |
| 11 | The old committees where clergymen of various denominations talked in polysyllables to each other 's waistcoats were given a sudden strength as they touched the aspirations of the peoples . |
| 12 | And then , in a very orderly way , and with a strange bell-like tinkling , the coffin broke into a collection of long icicle splinters , that rang and vanished as they touched the earth . |
| 13 | But WIN was leaking like a sieve , the Polish militia were told in advance and the men were picked up as soon as they touched the ground . |
| 14 | Among their routines as they trip the light fantastic at the Dolphin Centre in Darlington are the old time and modern dances . |
| 15 | He got up and went back down the stairs , going out into the gathering darkness , across the priory grounds behind the chapel from where he could hear the sweet , melodious chant of the nuns as they sang the first psalm of Compline . |
| 16 | In their view this had hopelessly inhibited the quest for the causes of crime in the case of classical criminology , and diverted attention away from social defence in the case of the neoclassicists ( since the latter were only interested in ‘ determinants ’ of crime in so far as they reduced the offender 's responsibility ) . |
| 17 | In the picture are two men , almost interchangeable , working side by side as they dig a ditch . |
| 18 | In the first of a 3-part series , we ask those on the receiving end what they think , as they ask the qestion , Who Cares ? |
| 19 | Several teachers suggested the re-introduction of group membership as they felt the change over had caused many not to renew and teachers did not seem able to keep track of those who did . |
| 20 | And tonight , New College Choir will be hoping to get the Royal seal of approval as they let the music speak for itself . |
| 21 | He is the only one who saw the monk 's face , by the altar lamp as they lifted the reliquary . |
| 22 | Such policies offer the rich some protection as they weaken the resolve of potential revolutionaries . |
| 23 | While other ways of making money become more respectable and sometimes laudable , developers are still seen as the spiritual heirs of Victorian millowners and slum landlords , people who , even as they tear the hearts out of cities , simultaneously give then a fatal sclerosis . |
| 24 | Flook claimed he did not see the family as they crossed a dual carriageway in Patchway , Bristol , as he was chased ‘ bumper to bumper ’ by two men in the other car . |
| 25 | As they crossed a stream the precious manuscript slipped from his hand and disappeared in the water . |
| 26 | They became nearly invisible as they crossed a huge , echoing corridor . |
| 27 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm hoping the doctors 'll have broken the news about her husband and her daughter , sir , ’ said Camb as they crossed the black and white checkerboard foyer of the station . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to make sure that everything is in order , ’ Frau Nordern said , grimly , as they crossed the square . |
| 30 | Karl tucked Erika 's arm under his as they crossed the bridge over the green , splintered ice of the Spree which formed a chill moat around the great museums , by the great dome of the Protestant Cathedral , and on to the broad stretch of Unter den Linden . |