Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] as they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | led wo late Tranmere strikes made it safe for the Merseysiders as they consolidated their second place in the Division One table . |
| 2 | A gentle drumming sound came from the riders as they tapped their saddles with their crops . |
| 3 | A project to photograph the birds as they raised their young was launched , and at once became a passion with the younger boys . |
| 4 | I wait two yards from the foot of the steps as they bring him out . |
| 5 | The dolphins , engrossed in feeding on an anchovy school , fall to detect the vessels as they make their stealthy approach . |
| 6 | There was no doubt in the minds of the directors of the polytechnics as they received their formal designations from the end of the 1960s that the polytechnics were to remain distinctive . |
| 7 | Brothers in arms Greg ( left ) and Jonny Searle let their feelings show after their sensational victory over the apparently invincible Italians Carmine and Giuseppe Abbagnale — and an emotional cox Garry Herbert ( right ) joins the brothers as they celebrate their golden moment |
| 8 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 10 | It is a very interesting , if noisy , place in which to view the wide variety of produce available and to observe the fishermen as they sell their daily catch of espada and tunny . |
| 11 | His tormentors had snapped off the lights as they wished him goodnight , and it was completely dark . |
| 12 | ‘ In this decree Pope Pius was taking a good swipe at those who would bring the church up to date , the modernists as they call themselves . |
| 13 | Some may prefer to be given a global picture of what is involved in the task and then be allowed to fill in the details as they need them . |
| 14 | The feeling that something special was about to happen spilled over into an exhibition of appreciation then unparalleled on an English racecourse : the crowd applauded the rivals as they made their way on to the track and burst into cheering as they reached it . |
| 15 | An efficiently set long-net must contain sufficient slack to encompass the rabbits as they hit it . |
| 16 | The second answer describes a procedure which relies , in principle , upon oral evidence received at the actual trial , a good deal of importance being attached to the impression the court forms of the parties and the witnesses as they give their evidence . |
| 17 | The assistants price the items as they stack them on the shelves , or when they are already on the shelves . |
| 18 | Kate was peering out of the windows as they bumped their way on to a farm track and back to the house . |
| 19 | He roused himself wearily to exchange greetings with the elders as they passed him , and went in to his foster-father . |
| 20 | Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons . |
| 21 | He hates the invaders , from not-all-that-stout Cortes via de Soto , the first to encounter the Cherokees , and the treacherous English and French who made life hell for the Mohawks , right up to the Quebec police who fired on the Mohawks as they protected their remnant of land against the building of a golf course . |
| 22 | In the last example , the teacher has joined the children as they wash their dolls . |
| 23 | Christmas is for most of us a magical moment in the year when we gather with our families , sing familiar carols and see the delight in the eyes of the children as they open their stockings and presents . |
| 24 | All this was owned by the d'Urbervilles , or the Stoke-d'Urbervilles as they called themselves at first . |
| 25 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 26 | She was even joking with the nurses as they did it , ’ she recalls . |
| 27 | Though it was shot on a strict schedule , not in the looser manner of its two predecessors , some scenes and lines were improvised or contributed by the actors ; for instance , Rhodes 's last words to the zombies as they eat his guts , ‘ Choke on ‘ em ! ’ |
| 28 | However , it is possible to concede that defendants should be judged on the facts as they believe them to be , and yet to argue in favour of an exception in rape cases . |
| 29 | In the kitchen the fire was burning low but there was light enough to see the steam rising from the bedclothes as they held them out to air . |