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

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1 However , as soon as they remove the weather-vane , several things happen very rapidly .
2 Others , struggling to get air-borne again , are driven backwards by the bow-wave of the surging sharks as they break the surface .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Among their routines as they trip the light fantastic at the Dolphin Centre in Darlington are the old time and modern dances .
14 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 .
15 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 ) .
16 In the picture are two men , almost interchangeable , working side by side as they dig a ditch .
17 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 ?
18 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 .
19 And tonight , New College Choir will be hoping to get the Royal seal of approval as they let the music speak for itself .
20 He is the only one who saw the monk 's face , by the altar lamp as they lifted the reliquary .
21 Such policies offer the rich some protection as they weaken the resolve of potential revolutionaries .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 As they crossed a stream the precious manuscript slipped from his hand and disappeared in the water .
25 They became nearly invisible as they crossed a huge , echoing corridor .
26 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 .
27 ‘ 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 .
28 ‘ I want to make sure that everything is in order , ’ Frau Nordern said , grimly , as they crossed the square .
29 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 .
30 ‘ Good German efficiency , ’ Karl said , as they crossed the street and climbed into the back of the car .
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