Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men were in great form , however , singing and shouting ; and you could not help laughing as you watched them remove certain attractive articles from the stalls of the street vendors . |
| 2 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 3 | Further , exercises 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 indicate that these sequence-type polynomials do appear to behave as we wanted them to . |
| 4 | He liked gentlemen to behave as he expected them to behave . |
| 5 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |
| 6 | Soft-centred milk chocolates that came as one bit them seemed almost as exciting as dancing with someone you knew you were about to sleep with used to be . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , the rich merchant was very powerful , and he came to control things in the city , and he made everybody do as he thought they ought to do ; snowball-throwing was made illegal , and children had to eat up all their food . |
| 8 | Birds , nesting in the ivy , squeaked as she disrupted them . |
| 9 | The information was collected after the attempt and it is not clear whether patients would have acted as they claimed they would but , taken at face value , the findings support the case for better health education and warning about the effects of drugs . |
| 10 | Here and there a fight broke out , girls screeched as someone goosed them , lovers clung together and ignored all that went on around them , pickpockets worked their art furiously and everyone set out to enjoy themselves . |
| 11 | Alix 's menagerie of coils could fix that , but her hands shook as she used them . |
| 12 | The car did n't stop as it passed them . |
| 13 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 14 | Her shoes went flying as she kicked them off her feet . |
| 15 | Glynis chatted as she escorted them out . |
| 16 | February the twenty eighth , end of February , yeah , my Lord so of course erm staying the counterclaim as a set off would n't really progress much further because after eighty five , I mean that 's simply a subsidiary way in which the defence arises , article eighty five arises primarily because we say underlying the arrangements are void and you 're enforcing something , which is void and you ca n't do it , that 's not a set off claim , but your Lordship I mean , my Lord that 's why that does n't really get them any further , my Lord they 've always had outstanding , which they 've never pursued er for order fourteen so they can always ti try as they said they will for the other erm , erm preemptive attacks upon us |
| 17 | ‘ As much as I can , ’ she laughed as she poured them both a cup of coffee . |
| 18 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 19 | But of course with them coming like that and perishable goods , we let them go as they wanted them , to clear the lot like that . |
| 20 | The more explicit pictures referred to in the text have not been reproduced as we felt they could cause unnecessary offence to both readers and distributors |
| 21 | Someone brought her a coffee and she smiled vague thanks , noting with the same odd detachment that her hands were shaking as she clasped them around the mug . |
| 22 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |
| 23 | No one spoke as we approached them , but as soon as we had gone by , a voice said , ‘ How 'd you like to be turned out of your home , Missus ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Please try , ’ she said as she re-opened them . |
| 25 | ‘ These are pretty mild , ’ he said as she swallowed them down . |
| 26 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 27 | It 's a bonus to have your papers delivered , but my newspaper boy , like all others , had perfected the art of cramming them in the letter box so that they were shredded as you pulled them inside . |
| 28 | Small corner shops shut as she approached them . |
| 29 | In the dream she was smiling , holding out her hands to the man and the children , but her smile slowly faded as she realised they could n't see her . |
| 30 | Her fingers began to move as she watched them almost in a hypnotised way . |