Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 2 | Although they acted more as employees than as members of a profession , they had important positions within the companies for which they worked . |
| 3 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 4 | After speeding across the moors and winding through woodland he at last found her and together they flowed slowly as one out into the Hamoaze . |
| 5 | They served simply as an ideological cloak behind which a vast party and police bureaucracy and an immensely authoritarian state machine were created . |
| 6 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 7 | On several occasions Charlotte detected a frisson of mutual resentment between the two , though for the most part they functioned adequately as a partnership . |
| 8 | They started now as the sound of breaking china came to them , followed by Mrs Carver 's voice on a note so high-pitched it was almost a scream , as she cried , ‘ Out of me way ! |
| 9 | They looked rather as if they had just raided an old clothes shop , few of the items of their clothing being a match , and for the most part , fitting only where they touched . |
| 10 | They wrote freely as if they had known each other for years . |
| 11 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 12 | They dived overboard as the 13,000-ton Royal Pacific went down within 15 minutes of being hit by a large trawler . |
| 13 | During the interviews , the sample were asked to comment on the treatment they received from GPs and also what they considered personally as the best method to ‘ come off ’ . |