Example sentences of "[v-ing] as they [verb] [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 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 4 | The evaluation of processes in sign which are presented in this chapter arise in this context , such that results are available to inform our theories of perceiving and remembering as they apply to spoken language . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 7 | Many are able to continue living as they wish in their own homes . |
| 8 | With a few exceptions , they said , most hornbills in captivity are not breeding , and many are given little chance to , living as they do without a mate or a nestbox . |
| 9 | The State has the obligation of ensuring this end by guaranteeing that homosexuals , living as they do in an ‘ abnormal ’ relationship , do not have the opportunity to influence directly the upbringing of children . |
| 10 | Conversely we are not sensitised to the possibility of sociocultural differences between the sexes , because they seem to share a culture and a history in common , living as they do in close proximity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mrs the plaintiff 's expert thought it was quote , extremely unreasonable to expect Mr and Mrs to continue caring as they do for their daughter , unquote . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An ambiguously worded provision , patently lacking adequate means of enforcement , may be too slender a ground on which to anticipate that the courts would sanction a derogation from the ownership rights of the shareholders , lying as they do at the foundation of the legal model of the company . |
| 20 | The Pentland Hills are viewed increasingly as an area with high recreational potential , lying as they do on the very doorstep of Edinburgh . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Offensive odours which emanate from domestic or industrial premises can cause serious annoyance to persons in the locality , and inevitably give rise to public concern , spreading as they do in some cases over a wide area . |
| 24 | Soaked , muddy and dejected ; children crying and adults becoming ill-tempered ; people jostling , arguing and complaining as they slipped in the mud . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was close , so close : his lips warm , tender and cherishing as they moved on hers . |
| 27 | Her breathing quickened , her eyes dilating as they stared into his . |
| 28 | And let's face it brothers , sisters , some of our members have more chance of seeing Lord Lucan riding as they have of finding a job . |
| 29 | The women wore coloured skirts down to their ankles , their earrings and beads jangling as they moved with sinuous grace over the uneven ground . |
| 30 | It was , he noticed , distinctly less warm than it had been , with an east wind blowing as they turned into the Parade . |