Example sentences of "[noun sg] as they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at times like this when people begin to lose the true principles of religion as they become too involved and so wars begin . |
| 2 | Earlier , PC Reggie Williamson , 46 , was blown up in front of his girlfriend as they returned home from a night out near Moy , Co Tyrone . |
| 3 | But when Diversion hit their stride as they do tonight with the EP 's lead track , ‘ Cheese ’ , they can make guitar pop which is unpredictable and original , seething with speedy adrenalin , immediately catchy and funkily danceable . |
| 4 | Niall manoeuvred a particularly tight bend which had Lindsey gripping the edges of her seat as they seemed only inches away from a sheer drop . |
| 5 | In shell-shocked silence she sat , huddled in her seat as they drove away from the hospital . |
| 6 | Because social workers face considerable stress and often feel depressed and beleaguered , such suggestions for research as they make often reflect current problems rather than long-term issues . |
| 7 | A full day excursion by coach to the spectacular bulbfields ; ablaze with the glorious colours of spring as they stretch as far as the eye can see . |
| 8 | Had the Russians dumped Crabb 's body into the sea off the mouth of the harbour as they steamed past , suitably weighted with ropes that would rot in due course ? |
| 9 | On the roof I could see the marks of the picks of long-dead miners cut into the rock as they crouched here in the dark , hacking out the ore with no light other than the dim wicks of the oil lamps or the candles stuck on their helmets . |
| 10 | Toppling trees and clearing the undergrowth as they moved inexorably forward , they carved a thirty-feet-wide gash through the forest . |
| 11 | When they hit the ground , they may stop abruptly , embedding themselves still glowing , fuming and sizzling slightly in the loose ash ; or they may bounce off , to leap down the steep sides of the cone in a series of great bounds , developing a rapid spin as they do so , and whirring downhill like cannonballs , ending up in a rattling shower of small stones at the bottom . |
| 12 | Hunters are also prone to dehydration and electrolyte loss as they work very hard , sometimes hunting two or three times per week . |
| 13 | Not so many went out to work as they do now . ’ |
| 14 | Children were n't allowed to share the adult world to the same degree as they do now . |
| 15 | Its rivals , the PFLP and DFLP , wanted to allow local leaders to oppose the autonomy plan as they thought best . |
| 16 | We all squeezed into the church hall the following afternoon for a final showdown with Swire Sugden , the lads from the nail factory in a belligerent mood as they had just downed tools in protest against their foreman using bad language . |
| 17 | Alice 's arms were around his waist as they rode home , her hands like two white birds sleeping on the soft leather of his jacket . |
| 18 | The annual migration of some one and a half million wildebeest is an awesome spectacle as they travel about 800 kilometres in search of water and green pastures for survival . |
| 19 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 20 | In the 1920s the owners of large private cellars did not , with the possible exception of vintage port , lay down wine for future consumption as they do now . |
| 21 | Mother Francis hoped that the Community in Dublin would understand the need to make Eve feel important and part of the place as they had always done here in Knockglen . |
| 22 | The missions became deadly games of cat and mouse as they penetrated further into DEEP territory . |
| 23 | In addition , the actual breakdown of the membrane polyphospoinositides by calcium-stimulated enzymes may promote degranulation as they have highly charged polar head groups which would tend to impede membrane fusion ( Allan & Mitchell , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | This came as a surprise to the band as they had never agreed to play the concert at all and they immediately issued a statement to this effect , fearing that many of their fans were being lured into buying tickets for a Smiths free event . |
| 25 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 26 | The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop . |
| 27 | Other stars are genuinely variable ; they swell and shrink , changing their output as they do so . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Tottenham celebrated bouncing out of the red as they banked nearly £6m from the sale of former Magpie Paul Gascoigne and immediately announced new plans to make money out of the midfield wizard . |
| 29 | A favourite method of torment sees the bogie leap on its victim 's back as they travel alone at night on a country road , clasping hard hands over the person 's eyes so they can not see . |
| 30 | Again , make a secret WP test for each character as they enter here . |