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

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1 Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon .
2 The Myrcan followed them as they made their way towards the smell of horse piss and hay .
3 Lori spotted them as they weaved their way through the tables , and waved .
4 He came up with them as they followed their tee-shots up the 2nd fairway .
5 Finnan labelled them as they ate their evening meal .
6 Then the riders crashed among them as they hugged their covering trees , and it was a chaos of hand to hand fighting and opportunist running , without shape or direction .
7 Both Greene and Cloke were jeered as they passed the post and cries of ‘ cheats ’ greeted them as they rode their mounts back to the unsaddling enclosure and were hauled before the stewards .
8 There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home .
9 Probably his supposed intention was a pure fiction of the monks ' imagination , but the remembrance of a lost opportunity was a heavy burden for them as they watched their rights being pared away under successive kings and archbishops .
10 Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude .
11 The high walls of the Castelo de Sao Jorge lifted above them as they worked their way through a maze of narrow alleys and then , as they came into a small square in front of a church , Devlin emerged from an alley and crossed the cobbles before them towards a cafe .
12 He realized that their loyalty was the firmest basis of his own personal power , that he needed them as they needed him .
13 Outside , in the thickening light of the late afternoon , with the rain trickling into his eyes and under his scut , he watched them as they joined him .
14 Across on Platform 2 , the train from Paddington was just pulling in ; and passengers were already beginning to stream across the new pedestrian bridge as Morse and Lewis first ascended , then descended the steps , darting challenging looks around them as they dodged their way through the bustling contra-flow .
15 Many of the small boats which usually travelled its waters were moored for the night and The Sandhopper passed a number of them as it made its way up river .
16 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 .
17 To Kelly , watching them as she sipped her port , it was clear who was going to win .
18 For a moment panic widened them as he lowered his head and his mouth took possession of hers with an aggressive thoroughness , forcing her lips apart as his tongue invaded the soft vulnerability of her mouth .
19 He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions .
20 They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round .
21 So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur .
22 And I used to take them as I wanted them and I cleared the lot .
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