Example sentences of "[adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope we get a replacement , ’ Müller said heartlessly as they settled down to work . |
| 2 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 3 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 4 | Gold ( 1958 ) suggests that the researcher may be : ( a ) a complete participant , concealing his true identity and intentions from the group , and living entirely as they do ; or ( b ) a participant-as-observer , actively involved in the group , but they know the researcher is not really one of them ; or ( c ) an observer-as-participant , a less common mode , usually involving a brief visit with limited participation . |
| 5 | Then , just as suddenly as they had grabbed at his throat , the hands released his windpipe and the weight lifted off him . |
| 6 | And then , just as suddenly as they 'd started , they stopped . |
| 7 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 8 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 9 | And how many times , on re-entering occupied space , did the phenomena depart as suddenly as they came ? |
| 10 | And then , as suddenly as they had appeared , they vanished . |
| 11 | Her tears dried as suddenly as they had appeared . |
| 12 | They were gone as suddenly as they had come . |
| 13 | As suddenly as they had begun , the two men disengaged , as though some unspoken signal had passed between them , and resumed their wary circling . |
| 14 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 15 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 16 | All the males of the Khedive 's family tended to thicken out and age suddenly as they approached middle age . |
| 17 | It appeared quite suddenly as they turned a sharp bend , an imposing stone edifice with ivy-clad walls , set among tall poplars , well back from the road . |
| 18 | She found herself smiling at him suddenly as they gained the shelter of the sitting-room and went in search of towels . |
| 19 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 20 | He looked at his watch pointedly as they met . |
| 21 | The celebrations of selflessness and sacrifice are much as they were in the wartime films , but this time there seems little point in asserting them , nothing to be argued for . |
| 22 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 23 | The patriarchal values of the countryside seem unthreatening by contrast , much as they do in Francesco Rosi 's film Three brothers , in which a similar transaction between city and countryside is followed through . |
| 24 | C. The functions of Edinburgh today are much as they were long ago . |
| 25 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 26 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 27 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 28 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 29 | The young women of the hareem , her foster sisters , cousins and young aunts scurried around her much as they do in any society , running errands , advising , gossiping . |
| 30 | When the stress at the ends or edges of the joint reaches the strength of dry casein therefore , cracks appear at the edges of the joint which immediately produce their own private local concentrations of stress , and so the cracks run through the middle of the joint , much as they would in glass . |