Example sentences of "as they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind , Uncle could be just as witty as them sometimes . |
| 2 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 3 | Put any group of players together and watch the torture as they painfully suss out where they fit in the ability stakes , and watch the most inept contract into a meek and confused , self-effacing heap . |
| 4 | The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat . |
| 5 | Bath players of recent years have never appeared as convincing for England as they regularly do for Bath ; while if they are part of one of those curious South-West sides their form goes down yet another notch . |
| 6 | Gradually , the client 's confidence grows as they regularly list their successes . |
| 7 | The lawyer reminded Nathan and Georgia that the house on Mahogany Drive already belonged to them since , as they doubtless knew , their mother had died intestate and , when their mother 's mother died some years later , the house , deemed to be two-thirds of her estate , became legally theirs . |
| 8 | Its common name is derived from the ‘ whoop ’ children make as they desperately struggle to inhale after a coughing spasm . |
| 9 | ( Also significant was the 1975-onwards descent into repression by the Peruvian military as they desperately sought to regain control of an explosive situation unleashed by their own policies . ) |
| 10 | They usually do not even risk saying , as they truthfully could , that though groups may differ on the average , group differences are small relative to individual differences , and that every sociological stratum and ethnic group contains the full range of mental ability . |
| 11 | One leading idea is that gases such as hydrogen cyanide , methane , and ammonia dissolved in pools ( as they surely would ) and that as these pools evaporated , the compounds became more concentrated , and finally reacted together to form more complex organic molecules . |
| 12 | " No ; unfortunately too many people in the organization over here know you as Paddy Montgomery ; if someone from Dublin wants to check up on your credentials — as they surely will — then we need to use your established name . |
| 13 | Who will make the necessary recommendations if problems arise — as they surely will ? |
| 14 | When the questions began , as they surely must , there was nothing left within her to protect her from his probing . |
| 15 | The Government deserve to be condemned by the electorate , as they surely will be . |
| 16 | Previous studies have uncertain relevance to the outpatient setting as they either investigated subgroups of patients for example the elderly , or have reported on the findings in hospital inpatients . |
| 17 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 18 | In contrast , the effect of dealing with domestic disputes can be traumatic on some policemen as they momentarily place their own children and family in the situation of emotional horror they encounter . |
| 19 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 20 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 21 | So , as they neither understood each other 's secrets , they were both puzzled and waited to find out more . |
| 22 | RANGERS boss Walter Smith praised his young side as they easily overcame Hibs to set up an important week with forthcoming matches against Club Bruges and Celtic . |
| 23 | It is fruitless asking patients if their injection sites are satisfactory , as they invariably say that they are ; they come to regard the abnormal as normal . |
| 24 | When the police ordered him to end it , he complied at once , his half-dozen supporters singing the National Anthem as they invariably did at the conclusion of their gatherings . |
| 25 | In the centre of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry , crossing the torrent of the Aldudes , is a gorgeous old humpbacked bridge ( a ‘ donkey 's back ’ bridge the French say ) , that is no longer of much use to anybody except to make you ask whether modern bridges need to be quite so drably horizontal as they invariably are . |
| 26 | Over-compensation with ‘ bags of character ’ afflicts both pint-sized man and machine , as they invariably come over as busy and mildly ridiculous . |
| 27 | In the aftermath , as they instantly relaxed , Rory slipped off the bed and out of her and banged his shin against a chair and shrieked in agony . |
| 28 | LIVERPOOL are sweating on a work permit for Norwegian Stig Inge Bjornbye as they anxiously wait to hear if defender David Burrows will play again this season . |
| 29 | Yet only a few days after the Wallabies had tucked the Cup safely away , as they thoroughly deserved to do , NZRFU officials were bustling about trying to find out what their players were up to . |
| 30 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |