Example sentences of "the [noun] as they walked " in BNC.
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1 | Willie hung on to Tom 's left trouser leg and peered gingerly round at the mare as they walked past it . |
2 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
3 | Hazlitt set out with Coleridge that morning on the road back to Shrewsbury , observing how his companion continually moved from one side of the footpath to the other as they walked along , though only later connecting this odd movement with ‘ any instability of purpose or involuntary change of principle ’ . |
4 | Piers was in the living-room as they walked in , half naked , the top button of his faded jeans undone . |
5 | Of Time In They sang as they walked along the clause as they walked along tells when they sang . |
6 | The song ‘ Here we go round the mulberry bush ’ reflects this ( though an alternative theory holds that a mulberry tree was often planted in prison exercise yards , and inmates recited the rhyme as they walked round it ) . |