Example sentences of "soon as they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as they finished the first course Rodney raised his wine glass . |
| 2 | As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All except a couple of knights , which vanished as soon as they left the board itself . |
| 5 | Roberts 's ankle appeared broken , but the Chelsea players were not interested in retribution and the club , as soon as they knew the injury was less serious , put a message on the electronic scoreboard : an example of public relations from which others could learn . |
| 6 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
| 7 | They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 . |
| 8 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 9 | The three boys had always assumed , as soon as they reached the age for such assumptions , that Charles had married Liz in order to provide the three motherless babes with a proper family life . |
| 10 | But as soon as they reached the living room , she saw his face clearly in the light of the candles . |
| 11 | As soon as they reached the Embankment Father Watson began to speak in measured tones . |
| 12 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were ready to move on the appointed day and , at the end of the summer , they would begin the trek back to the village on their own , as soon as they smelt the smoke of the bonfires in which the thatch and the bedding from the shielings were destroyed , for reasons which today we might classify as ‘ environmental health ’ , but which , to the young folk of the shieling , was almost a ritual . |
| 15 | I had sweat all over my face and as soon as they opened the door I just went for one of them . |
| 16 | As soon as they hit the ground he rolled , shoving Isabel beneath him . |