Example sentences of "as they [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But beware , this tameness leads them to be very bold in defence of their nest , and they will laugh a strident ‘ heh , heh , heh ’ as they clip you across the ear with a stiffly held wing-tip ! |
| 32 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 33 | But Araminta is given a curious grace of movement and a gift for surprising which , as they owe nothing to the intellect , must have been excessively difficult to achieve . |
| 34 | This mixture of fish gets on fine in my tank , except when a week after buying them , the Rainbows spawned which caused chaos as they pushed everything to the other end of the tank . |
| 35 | She crouched as the great flock screamed past her , wings humming ; some of them tangled in the trees , a few panicked as they shattered themselves against the stone of the fortress , or flew frantically in the confined space of the room ; but most of them circled above her head , then streamed away to the south , lost against the fading luminescence of the sky . |
| 36 | ‘ I 'd take your clothes off now and prove it to you , ’ he said thickly , and his hands were shaking as they held her by the hips . |
| 37 | I give them lollipops , so they perform enthusiastically , showing us the speed of their boats as they skiff them through the water and how many stones they can carry before sinking . |
| 38 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 39 | Communities in the coalfields will continue to fight opencast development against enormous odds as they see it as an environmentally destructive process which threatens their lives , homes and environment culture . |
| 40 | But we must n't blame philosophers if they tell it as they see it with the aid of their philosophical telescopes and microscopes . |
| 41 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 42 | I asked , as they marched me towards the car . |
| 43 | As they settled themselves on the trunk Silas switched off the torch . |
| 44 | Walsh , who plays Sicknote , says : ‘ The shots of fire exploding flashovers as they call them in the trade were absolutely mind-blowing . |
| 45 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 46 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 47 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 48 | In a pilot experiment subjects attempted to describe films as they watched them in the way described by Hughes and Cole . |
| 49 | His eyes narrowed speculatively as they watched her in the mirror . |
| 50 | There entered her mind a memory of the feast day of the Madonna della Bruna ; it fell in July in the time of the fierce lion sun , as they called it in the hills , and yet the shrine attracted crowds from all Ninfania and all around . |
| 51 | Suppose this chap was Alexandra 's special friend , her Significant Other , as they called it in the States , would n't he get a bit peeved if some strange man appeared at the door asking for her ? |