Example sentences of "again as they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |
| 2 | She sat and ate it with them now , and oh , it was torture that in deference to propriety and Matey they had not made love again as they had done that golden afternoon , always to be remembered . |
| 3 | She heard Rodo 's voice again as they reached the top . |
| 4 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 5 | His hand reached for hers again as they went into what might have been a salon in the heyday of the old house . |
| 6 | Everyone watched as the water reached the top of the men 's thighs , then their hips , before finally becoming shallower again as they passed the mid-point in the river and approached the opposite bank . |
| 7 | There was a cry , and then the wheels thumped again as they passed across either feet or ankles . |
| 8 | On the train journey back south they were cheered once again as they passed through every station , and this time Charlie felt they were more worthy of the hatted ladies ' respect . |
| 9 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 10 | Instead , he did another trick with the steering-wheel , making her lurch forward again as they turned off the road , between a pair of high wrought-iron gates , and headed up a tree-lined gravel driveway towards a fabulous , sprawling , red-roofed villa . |
| 11 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 12 | Her mouth sought his again and again as they broke for breath . |
| 13 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 14 | Steve asked once again as they headed out of Palma , taking the same route Ruth had returned to Palma by — the quickest route . |
| 15 | From a dark corner of the stairs we admired the ladies as they went up to their rooms , and then again as they descended to dinner in their elegant evening dresses . |