Example sentences of "a [noun] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
| 2 | For some reason they had not much liked the look of this pub , called the Fir Tree , and though he had slowed a bit as they came to it , they had not stopped . |
| 3 | EVEN the sophisticated Hollywood audience at the American Cinematheque tribute to Sean Connery , held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last weekend , were blushing a bit as they watched the raunchy video offerings from Dame Edna and Richard Harris . |
| 4 | Every one 's a winner as they embark on a series of napalm nursery rhymes spiked with grinning guitar and sugar and spite lyrics . |
| 5 | Every one 's a winner as they embark on a series of napalm nursery rhymes spiked with grinning guitar and sugar and spite lyrics . |
| 6 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 7 | At the far end of the street , where the beach curved into an arc — and where the water was far enough away from the slops of Main Street — there on my right I could see a grove of coconut palms behind the beach , almost bending over the sand like a canopy as they leaned against the trade winds . |
| 8 | SINGER Cher and her Bon Jovi guitarist toyboy Richie Sambora , right , fuelled rumours of a wedding as they hugged at a London party . |
| 9 | thank heavens for Gloucester rugby club … they won at the weekend … well it was more a walkover as they ran in forty two points against Newport . |
| 10 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 11 | They arrived in separate motorcades and barely exchanged a glance as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 12 | Neither waited for a reply as they galloped on . |
| 13 | Merrill was saved a reply as they were both enveloped in Sam 's breezy bonhomie . |
| 14 | According to an executive director of the Industrial Development Authority , Sean Donnelly , Irish processors are at a disadvantage as they are too far away from overseas retail outlets , especially the big supermarket chains in Britain , France , Germany and Italy . |
| 15 | And amongst neighbours , an executive found guilty of corporate crime continues to be regarded as ‘ upright and steadfast ; indeed , they will probably see him as solid and substantial a citizen as they themselves are ’ ( Geis 1978 : 283 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ We learnt that it is hard to build models to scale from a drawing as they are not very accurate in size . |
| 17 | She led the way up a flight of stairs , shouting a greeting as they passed the entrance to the ball-scryer 's receiving room on the ground floor . |
| 18 | Dot wished that the metal caps on Gloria 's high-heels would n't make such a tapping as they walked . |
| 19 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 20 | Three patients did not return fr a check as they were free of symptoms . |
| 21 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 22 | She broke into a run as they returned to the cottage . |
| 23 | Foreign competitors can enter our market on more advantageous terms and can gain a hold as they have for instance , in the motor and electronics industries . |
| 24 | What if the scan has been wrong , and it was a girl not a boy as they 'd said ? |
| 25 | Other at other times you would have er hand riveters where you had maybe two riveters and a holder-on , and er a heater as they called , a rivet boy . |
| 26 | Investors have been unsettled by a filibuster in Congress , which cast doubts on the president 's ability to push through as big a deficit-reduction as they were expecting . |
| 27 | Members of the public , on the other hand , would speak to a judge as they would to any other knight or peer — Sir John , or Lord Smith . |
| 28 | There were piercing whistles , then a thump as they opened the boot , where the money was packed in cardboard boxes wrapped in plastic rubbish bags . |
| 29 | After Lithuania , Spain come to Dublin and , the way the group is shaping up , the Spaniards may not be able to settle for a point as they did in Belfast last year . |
| 30 | Finally , women who are actively anorectic and weigh 85% or less of average expected body weight may not be suitable for referral to a group as they often experience physiological urges to binge as a result of emaciation . |