Example sentences of "as they [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 2 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 3 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 4 | ‘ These people were cold bloodedly shot in the head as they slept in separate bedrooms . ’ |
| 5 | Suspected Sikh terrorists killed 19 Hindu students visiting the town of Patiala for a students ' festival on Nov. 10 as they slept in dormitories . |
| 6 | Gail Spiro , 41 , and her children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , were shot through the head as they slept in their beds . |
| 7 | Gail Spiro , 41 , and her children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , were shot through the head as they slept in their beds . |
| 8 | It 's wrong the Blacks ca n't do as they please in South Africa , it 's as much their country as the Whites . |
| 9 | BR could not avoid passing its dramatically increased costs following the oil crisis on to its customers , especially London commuters , and as they reduced in number ( demand falling at 1 per cent a year ) services , stock and facilities were reduced to ‘ match demand ’ , inevitably causing poor morale . |
| 10 | In some cases fleece could be stored on a gallery for a group of spinners , for it is preferable to keep fleeces in a cool atmosphere as they deteriorate in hot and dry conditions . |
| 11 | Unrestricted access to industrialized country markets , the report said , would increase developing countries ' export earnings by US$55,000 million , as much as they received in aid [ see p. 37476 ] . |
| 12 | Andy Lloyd believes they ultimately failed last year because of the onerous programme confronting them , as they competed in all directions for an elusive honour : ‘ There was so much concerted effort and no reward . |
| 13 | Outside is a different matter — protective covers for the cabin and cowling are an excellent idea as long as they let in a free flow of air to minimise condensation . |
| 14 | A series of Land Acts shook the confidence of the landlords as they recognised in them a forewarning of the change in the ownership of Irish land . |
| 15 | She began to feel a little differently , though when less than an hour later they entered Ven 's hotel suite and as she turned , about to give him her polite but none the less sincere thanks as they halted in the middle of the room , Ven looked down at her and got in first with , ‘ Are you tired ? ’ |
| 16 | The singer caught their quick look of recognition as they crossed in the doorway . |
| 17 | As they crossed in front of the Queensway Tunnel for the final sprint up William Brown Street , 23-year-old Nadobenko was going so fast he mounted the kerb and bounced back but still had the strength to cross the line in first place . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , Christ , ’ he said again , for he was an Australian with a hangover and he shared a quarter tonner named Mrs Mangel with four other Australians with four other hangovers , and as they stirred in their sleeping bags in the morning they looked like five blind underground creatures disturbed by David Attenborough . |
| 19 | There she played most beautifully , pouncing on leaves and grasses as they blew in the wind , pretending to chase her own tail . |
| 20 | It is not difficult to imagine the exercise of these powers in the inner city areas of Britain producing the same reaction as they provoke in the riot-tom areas of Belfast and Derry . |
| 21 | In extension of this , in-service education and training at its best is responsive both to teachers as individuals and to teachers as they function in their workplace . |
| 22 | They married in June 1789 , and a month later , in despair and rage , he murdered her as they walked in the darkness to the Castle of Comfort Inn . |
| 23 | Lady Fairbairn said they were peppered with pellets as they walked in the garden of Fordell Castle , their home in Fife , Scotland . |
| 24 | She had seemed quite tranquil as they walked in the sunshine through the crowded cathedral square where spectator stands were being erected ready for the Easter celebrations . |
| 25 | As they had in losing to Bath on the day Wales lost to Bridgend , Neath conceded a first-half deficit which proved too much for them to turn over . |
| 26 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 27 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 28 | Events there were taking much the same course as they had in Portugal , and as Mark had resolved that problem in double quick time , he was considered the best man to deal with this new problem situation . |
| 29 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 30 | In the Balkans the arrival of capitalist modes of production as the gift of foreign nationals provoked — just as they had in Poland — a rise in Bosnian and Serbian nationalism . |