Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] they on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I wiped them on my pinafore Mr Vulcan asked what was wrong with me . |
| 2 | Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table . |
| 3 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 4 | As she placed them on the table , Roy spoke up . |
| 5 | He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing . |
| 6 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
| 7 | However , even here a discrepancy arises as Mercier shows the keyfronts to be black ( just as we see them on the William Smith ) , whereas in all of the spinets by Hitchcock and in his sole surviving harpsichord at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , the colour of the keyfronts matches the natural key plates ( i.e. ivory keys always have ivory arcades ) . |
| 8 | The assistants price the items as they stack them on the shelves , or when they are already on the shelves . |
| 9 | In fact Auguste and Sid were the only volunteers and even Auguste had second thoughts as he smelt them on the gridiron . |