Example sentences of "[v-ing] as they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 2 | She settled the old lady on a stretcher near the door , so that she could see the sunlit complex , and the happy holidaymakers laughing and shouting as they played in the pool , their conversations a mixture of Spanish and English . |
| 3 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 4 | Standing at a safe distance , my eyeballs popped at the sight of the rich variety of penises on show , ranging as they did from dainty chipolatas to Bowyer 's jumbo sausages , with a few unfortunate specimens doing impersonations of mummified button mushrooms left for dead at the bottom of a refrigerator . |
| 5 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |
| 6 | Several city levels above , it would be mid- afternoon now , though the inhabitants of Sagramoso City plainly spurned the radiance of daylight , sheltering as they did under their immense , interlocking umbrellas of black glass . |
| 7 | At the moment her eyes were coaxing as they turned on Alain , but when she had looked at Jenna there had been a coldness that was quickly hidden . |
| 8 | They suffered considerable prejudice and criticism , adding as they did to the already excessive pool of surplus urban labour , though in practice they concentrated in trades , such as tailoring , in which there was relatively little competition . |
| 9 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |
| 10 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 11 | ‘ At least you 're honest enough to want to end one affair before starting another — ’ He broke off abruptly , his eyes narrowing as they rested on her tense face . |
| 12 | Soaked , muddy and dejected ; children crying and adults becoming ill-tempered ; people jostling , arguing and complaining as they slipped in the mud . |
| 13 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 14 | He was close , so close : his lips warm , tender and cherishing as they moved on hers . |
| 15 | Her breathing quickened , her eyes dilating as they stared into his . |
| 16 | The women wore coloured skirts down to their ankles , their earrings and beads jangling as they moved with sinuous grace over the uneven ground . |
| 17 | It was , he noticed , distinctly less warm than it had been , with an east wind blowing as they turned into the Parade . |
| 18 | ‘ Shop girls were screaming and young mothers were crying as they ran up the street , ’ she said . |
| 19 | The sun was throwing its last handfuls of sunlight into the sky and the gulls were crying as they circled around the school . |
| 20 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 21 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |
| 22 | Coming as they did in organised groups around strong personal leaders , the Saxons tended to name their settlements with a combination of local place features and , more importantly , a worthy 's name . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know about you , ’ the reporter was saying as they walked across the cool marble-floored lobby of the large office building and out into the hot , brilliant midday sunshine of Fenchurch Street , ‘ but I 'd practically sell my soul for a really icy cold vodka and tonic . |
| 24 | What had he really been saying as they sat among the trees ? |
| 25 | Daylight was quickly fading as they walked up the street to the nurse 's house . |
| 26 | A child was screaming in one of the flats , while two dogs were snarling as they fought in the wasteland beyond the apartment house . |
| 27 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 28 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 29 | Two of the Presidential guardsmen were giggling as they pointed to the name of the village that was his target . |
| 30 | But as it grows it will look deep into its hardback licences , and I fear some ugly clawback scenes arising as they did with Mandarin . |