Example sentences of "as they [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as soon as they remove the weather-vane , several things happen very rapidly . |
| 2 | Others , struggling to get air-borne again , are driven backwards by the bow-wave of the surging sharks as they break the surface . |
| 3 | The only alteration in her face was the pucker of her lips melting into a pout of unrelieved gloom as they shut the door behind them . |
| 4 | The poor Chinese footballers understandably got a coolish reception in their World Cup qualifying tournament here , especially as they spoilt the script by winning their opening match . |
| 5 | The beetles immediately started running around in circles chalking the ground , and falling over themselves as they stretched the tape measure across from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 6 | The Russian fleet managed to destroy the Turkish fleet and that caused Britain and France considerable concern as they feared the Russians , so they joined Turkey in March 1854 . |
| 7 | On Saturday 16 February SPAG decided to take legal proceedings against Mogul , as they feared the company would continue to do nothing to rectify the situation . |
| 8 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 9 | The old committees where clergymen of various denominations talked in polysyllables to each other 's waistcoats were given a sudden strength as they touched the aspirations of the peoples . |
| 10 | And then , in a very orderly way , and with a strange bell-like tinkling , the coffin broke into a collection of long icicle splinters , that rang and vanished as they touched the earth . |
| 11 | But WIN was leaking like a sieve , the Polish militia were told in advance and the men were picked up as soon as they touched the ground . |
| 12 | In their view this had hopelessly inhibited the quest for the causes of crime in the case of classical criminology , and diverted attention away from social defence in the case of the neoclassicists ( since the latter were only interested in ‘ determinants ’ of crime in so far as they reduced the offender 's responsibility ) . |
| 13 | In the first of a 3-part series , we ask those on the receiving end what they think , as they ask the qestion , Who Cares ? |
| 14 | Several teachers suggested the re-introduction of group membership as they felt the change over had caused many not to renew and teachers did not seem able to keep track of those who did . |
| 15 | And tonight , New College Choir will be hoping to get the Royal seal of approval as they let the music speak for itself . |
| 16 | He is the only one who saw the monk 's face , by the altar lamp as they lifted the reliquary . |
| 17 | Such policies offer the rich some protection as they weaken the resolve of potential revolutionaries . |
| 18 | While other ways of making money become more respectable and sometimes laudable , developers are still seen as the spiritual heirs of Victorian millowners and slum landlords , people who , even as they tear the hearts out of cities , simultaneously give then a fatal sclerosis . |
| 19 | ‘ It sounds nice , ’ said Juliet cautiously , as they crossed the Severn , en route for the A38 . |
| 20 | He put his hand under her elbow as they crossed the road . |
| 21 | Church bells sounded across the city and as they crossed the road they could see two brightly painted barges chugging away up the canal beneath the overhanging willows . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to make sure that everything is in order , ’ Frau Nordern said , grimly , as they crossed the square . |
| 23 | Wherever they were , they could n't help sensing the presence of the man with the tent at the far end of the bank ; it was there with them as they crossed the field and pushed through the hedge , in the musty smell of nettles and the white lumps raised on their skin , in the bramble scratches , and the brown fungus that hung from dead trees Libby felt it but she was also attracted by the thought of someone who was ill , someone she could help or look after , like the white mice or the jackdaw with the damaged wing . |
| 24 | Even so , they might all be shot as they crossed the moat with their explosives , or wounded before they could leave , having planted them . |
| 25 | There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw . |
| 26 | He stood listening as they crossed the hall and waited for the sound of the lift gates closing . |
| 27 | But as they crossed the sand she could see it was true . |
| 28 | He invited them in and , as they crossed the threshold , a small dishevelled hunchback made his faltering way towards them . |
| 29 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 30 | The growing population , particularly in the towns of Flanders , provided the manpower for conflicts throughout West Francia ; in the future , they were to collect an odious reputation for pillaging as they crossed the countryside . |