Example sentences of "as they leave [art] " in BNC.

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1 As they left the embassy , those who had arrived in cars were invited to leave their keys , and in return were promised that their vehicles would be brought eventually to the West .
2 That thought in particular kept her warm as they left the restaurant for the bitter streets of the city .
3 To deter them , the Dinamo side linked arms with their opponents as they left the pitch .
4 Her spirits rose as they left the ugliness of London behind .
5 The Sergeant came up from the rear to join Charles as they left the Carriageway and took the long asphalt path that leads diagonally away to Marble Arch .
6 ‘ It is like this , ’ said the Town Clerk as they left the Town Hall together , ‘ This arch-smuggler , Cut-throat Jake they call him , is apparently planning to receive a load of contraband liquor this very evening , at dusk , by the rocks below the Baddie 's Tower .
7 Charlie was chuckling as they left the cottage .
8 She thought he might take her hand as they left the floor , but he did n't .
9 Nevil demanded as they left the meeting .
10 Most of the skulls and mandibles were still as complete as they left the pellet , with little loss of basal and occipital bone and slight breakage of the tip of the ascending ramus of the mandible .
11 As they left the ‘ Barge ’ , Yanto experienced that old feeling in his loins .
12 One or two layers would be in space — first shooting at missiles as they left the atmosphere and then shooting at re-entry vehicles as they travel through space .
13 He was pleased to see that as soon as they left the abbey gate , they were joined by the soldiers Sir James Selkirk had stationed near the abbey .
14 Recent pictures on television showing young Kiwi enthusiasts pestering Test cricketers for their autographs as they left the field of play — and this actually during a Test match ! — have led me to ruminate on the lasting attraction of the pursuit of cricketers ' signatures .
15 People lied about their intentions up to the moment of voting and went on lying even as they left the polling stations , saying they had voted for Labour when they had voted Tory , ’ he says .
16 Teresa held her hand as they left the main building by a back door and crunched over the path to the infirmary , Anna dragging her feet .
17 It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street .
18 As they left the northern suburbs , the car began to tremble in Jed 's hands .
19 As they left the store they picked up a copy of Allied 's 1991/1992 brochure and found the carpet was normally priced at £9.99 .
20 As they left the courtroom Ford tried to speak to Mitchum , but Geisler barred his way .
21 The two were stopped by police after the incident as they left the scene , carrying their Chinese food in carrier bags .
22 Gerard 's home was the first one the killers came to as they left the Tiger 's Bay Loyalist stronghold .
23 Officers who found the youngsters ' bodies were horrified by the scene and some wept as they left the flat in Tottenham , North London .
24 Tabitha opened the box and ate a handful of raisins as they left the hold .
25 Peter tried to detach himself from Molland as they left the solicitor 's office .
26 All over Europe sailors had been accustomed to drawing a meridian through a point in their own country or through the furthest point to the west out in the Atlantic that they could determine with any certainty , and English sailors had usually taken their fixed meridian from a point west of the Lizard ( the last promontory of land they could see as they left the English Channel ) .
27 Leitzig asked as they left the changerooms .
28 And got heavier as they left the small station and straggled down a steep , cinder path .
29 Irate fathers departed as meekly as doves tearful mothers raised a smile as they left the building . "
30 She was wearing a large muff and as they left the train Minton remarked , ‘ I thought you were going to smuggle me through the barrier in that . ’
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