Example sentences of "[coord] as [pron] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low rejected this , but agreed that a Yugoslav officer would be permitted " to visit all camps in which there were CROATS , or as he called them , Yugoslav Quislings " . |
| 2 | The principal rivers of the Empire flow from the east to the west , and as they converge they become greater still . |
| 3 | And as they marched they 'd joyously sing , |
| 4 | The more nitrogen they have available , the better marine plants will grow , and as they grow they take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere . |
| 5 | Once hatched , they begin to feed on zooplankton and as they grow they prey on larger species and they are even cannibalistic . |
| 6 | As they played and as they sang and as they danced they made no mark on the sand at all . |
| 7 | Well , the answer is , giraffes tried to eat food on higher branches of trees , strained upwards , and as they strained they stretched their necks and they passed on their stretched necks to their , to their descendants . |
| 8 | We learn such skills from our mothers , midwives , books and from our own inner promptings , and as we use them they become absorbed into everyday life , often so much so that we no longer realize just how much we have learnt and are capable of ; in fact , we only take notice of the areas in which we feel that we fail . |
| 9 | And he said to me , he 'd marked my , my sum and , and as it happened they was right , all of them . |
| 10 | Evan Roberts noticed them , and as I touched them , felt their cool cleanliness and the slight resilient weight on the backs of my fingers . |
| 11 | The suspects were then brought up by number , a single man at a time ( and as I heard them begin with ‘ one ’ , the skin of my neck tightened in anticipation of gunfire which never came ) . |
| 12 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 13 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 14 | And as I say they would . |
| 15 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 16 | Over the next few days , more posters went up and as I read them , students whispered that ‘ something might happen ’ . |
| 17 | And as you say they 'll probably be cheaper at |
| 18 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 19 | Their heads were close together and as he appeared they all looked up in unison with startled faces and fell silent . |
| 20 | He kept the glasses trained , and as he watched they turned into a herd of about seven buffalo filing slowly in their direction . |
| 21 | The studio was shaded with heavy blue curtains and as he drew them back so that she could see to read more easily , a shaft of sunlight struck across her hair . |
| 22 | Ahead of her was a large crowd and as she addressed them she hoisted her skirt up high . |
| 23 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 24 | He followed her up the stairs to her flat and as she let them in he said , ‘ If only real life were as uncomplicated as Belinda 's world . ’ |
| 25 | When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement . |
| 26 | ‘ She lifted her arms and as she put them down she squeezed her sister Jackie 's hand and that was it . ’ |
| 27 | She embraced him with her eyes , pleased , and as she poured them both more wine , rewarded him with a view of her leg . |
| 28 | As young animals most are carnivorous , but as they mature they consumer more vegetable matter in their diet . |
| 29 | But as I said they need have no fear . |
| 30 | I know but as I said they have you by the short and curlies . |