Example sentences of "as they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the picture are two men , almost interchangeable , working side by side as they dig a ditch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As they crossed a stream the precious manuscript slipped from his hand and disappeared in the water . |
| 4 | They became nearly invisible as they crossed a huge , echoing corridor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Both turned as they heard a door opening . |
| 7 | In their experiment , subjects listened to sentences and pushed a button as soon as they heard a target word . |
| 8 | They were accompanied on their tour by Hanley Salvation Army Captain Ian Payne and are pictured with ornamenter Paul Harper as they signed a Jasper sweet dish to commemorate their visit . |
| 9 | On Sept. 18 security forces claimed to have killed 70 guerrillas as they staged an abortive attack on a police garrison to free prisoners held in the El Sepa prison colony situated in Loreto department in the north-east Amazonian region . |
| 10 | The children themselves were not present at the Hearing , as they had a legal obligation to be . |
| 11 | Norwich did not appeal , as they had a right to do , against the notice of 30 October 1990 . |
| 12 | As soon as they had a family got out , they rushed indoors with poles and burst out the slates near the ridge tree of the roof . |
| 13 | Liverpool get a penalty — ‘ suprise suprise ’ ( especially as they had a pen against them during the week , one of very few no doubt ) . |
| 14 | Two minutes later Zurich area control centre asked Base whether they had an aircraft flying outbound towards the Hochwald beacon ( ten miles south of the airfield ) as they had an unidentified trace . |
| 15 | ‘ But those do n't apply to us as they imply a sharing that 's total , and there 's only one area of my life that I can bring myself to share with you . ’ |
| 16 | WESTERN powers threatened yesterday to suspend Serbia 's membership of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe as they launched a campaign against the republic to try to halt the bloodshed in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 17 | Clark was named by police as they launched a manhunt following the bloodbath in the market town of Melksham , Wilts . |
| 18 | As they launched a follow-up operation to Mr Major 's fight-back speech to Scottish Tories at Edinburgh on Friday , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley warned that the Government must take seriously claims it is out of touch with what ‘ ordinary people ’ are thinking . |
| 19 | A SQUAD of Cambridge University rugby players turned the air blue as they terrorised a packed jetliner during a two-hour rampage . |
| 20 | As soon as they saw a lonely person , they had to drag him off to the woods Jesus Christ ! |
| 21 | A new director , responsible for a large section of the company 's business for the first time , was not in a particularly enviable position ; there were men equally as bright and considerably younger , poised ready to pull the mat from under him as soon as they saw an opportunity ; Hank could be their chance . |
| 22 | The Manton trainer said : ‘ Dr Devious is in great shape and on course for the Juddmonte International where I think the 10 furlongs will suit as long as they go a fast enough pace . |
| 23 | But this is not sufficient to explain the behaviour of some felines which will run and hide as soon as they hear a man approaching . |
| 24 | It was rough going for some of the exhibitors as they put a new four wheel drive model through its paces . |
| 25 | In June the chairman of the opposition Birlik organisation , Abdurakhim Pulatov , needed emergency hospital treatment for skull fractures after four men beat him and a companion with metal bars as they left an interview at a police station in the capital Tashkent . |
| 26 | People laugh and point as they recognize a particular god by his mannerisms , by the way he contorts the dhāmi 's body to dance , or smile , or leap high into the air . |
| 27 | When they disappeared he turned his attention to a couple of girls who were laughing and giggling as they flung an orange frisbee at each other . |
| 28 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 29 | And then suddenly , just as Artemis felt Buttons was beginning to tire and that she was regaining control , as they topped a hill and began the run down the opposite side , a hedge loomed up in front of her , divided by a solid looking five-bar gate which was firmly closed . |
| 30 | But not content with that , the England international also cut out at least two of City 's most dangerous attacks as they sought an equaliser . |