Example sentences of "as they [vb past] with [pron] " in BNC.

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1 These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from .
2 As soon as they finished with their books the two girls made him tea .
3 ‘ No , I 'm damned well not ! ’ she denied furiously , her eyes wide and startled as they clashed with his .
4 As they sat with their drinks on the terrace , Lunia noticed a handsome young man in a velvet suit wearing a large black felt hat and a red scarf crossing the Boulevard Montparnasse .
5 Jenna looked across at him as they sat with their coffee in the sitting-room that still bore the signs of her mother 's impeccable taste .
6 Mr Parry and his wife Wendy , 35 , seemed composed as they stood with their other children Dominic , 14 , and Abigail , 11 .
7 When he appeared , riding , and the sun flashed on the gold , his own men turned as they stood with their spears and called to him , ‘ Albanaid ! ’
8 They had ‘ as much in common with members of their own class in other European states in their interests and assumptions as they did with their feudal inferiors ’ .
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