Example sentences of "[prep] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having you family portrait done by a professional photographer gives you more than just a reminder of what your children looked like as they grew up , because a professional has all the best equipment necessary for a top-quality portrait . |
| 2 | But Coun Bob Pendlebury , deputy leader of the county council 's ruling Labour group , said potential problems would be dealt with as they arose . |
| 3 | But Coun Bob Pendlebury , deputy leader of the county council 's ruling Labour group , said it was recognised that there might be problems , but they would be dealt with as they arose . |
| 4 | Now their father was dead , the house was theirs to do with as they wished . |
| 5 | Any new arrivals should be dealt with as they come in and guests ' folios started . |
| 6 | The problems within the dramatic fiction are dealt with as they arise ; the teacher tries to keep the focus , intervenes as necessary and ensures that there are periods of reflection when everyone can consider carefully the meaning and significance of what has happened . |
| 7 | This generally results in large radiation shields , which are unpractical to work with as they reduce the operator 's movements . |
| 8 | Cardboard cartons , discarded beer and milk crates , bread baskets , planks , bricks and other builder 's waste , old tyres and steering wheels can all be made safe for children to experiment with as they build and imagine themselves as pilots , racing drivers , farmers and naval captains . |
| 9 | Fitted carpets , though warm , are not a good idea for the bathroom and lavatory of an elderly person who may have minor ‘ mishaps ’ and spillages which they can not easily deal with as they advance into old age . |
| 10 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 11 | It seems to ignore the way in which existing fares are calculated' including as they do an element of ‘ taper ’ to avoid long journeys made up of several different sectors ‘ bolted together ’ from becoming too high : again something which would be difficult to replicate in a situation where the railways were operated by numerous regional franchises . |
| 12 | Some Moslem students who had been visiting the Mosque were set upon as they left by a much larger gang of Copts and in the fracas at least one of the students appeared to have been killed . |
| 13 | Gerard 's home was the first one the killers came to as they left the Tiger 's Bay Loyalist stronghold . |
| 14 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 15 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 16 | We 've the goals from Swindon 's game , but first Oxford United who proved they can shine when they want to as they beat Stoke 3:2 at the Manor . |