Example sentences of "as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 2 | If clients are able to pay the bill they can get advice from a solicitor as often as they desire and on whatever topic they choose . |
| 3 | However , as soon as they remove the weather-vane , several things happen very rapidly . |
| 4 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 5 | As they break for food the general conversation is n't much toned down for her benefit . |
| 6 | Others , struggling to get air-borne again , are driven backwards by the bow-wave of the surging sharks as they break the surface . |
| 7 | In fact the acts symbolised repression as much as they enabled it . |
| 8 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 9 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 10 | All four had been shot through the back of their heads with a single bullet as they slept . |
| 11 | Paul , 23 , and Charlotte , 21 , were killed by boiler fumes as they slept at her mother 's home at Horsham , Sussex . |
| 12 | Police in San Diego said Gail Spiro , 40 , daughters Sara , 16 , Deana , 11 , and son Adam , 14 , were hit in the head as they slept . |
| 13 | ‘ These people were cold bloodedly shot in the head as they slept in separate bedrooms . ’ |
| 14 | Gail Spiro 41 , and children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , had been shot by a single bullet to the head as they slept . |
| 15 | At 1.15am , as they slept , Hobbins allegedly crept into the guardroom and took the rifle . |
| 16 | As I came nearer to the corner of the house , I heard my friends breathing loudly as they slept , and at once felt happier again . |
| 17 | Suspected Sikh terrorists killed 19 Hindu students visiting the town of Patiala for a students ' festival on Nov. 10 as they slept in dormitories . |
| 18 | That violent struggle led to the deaths of six members of the Doyle family whose house in the Ruchazie area of Glasgow was fire-bombed as they slept . |
| 19 | A fire-bombing in 1983 led to the deaths of six members of the Doyle family , whose house in the Ruchazie area of Glasgow was attacked as they slept . |
| 20 | That violent struggle led to the deaths of six members of the Doyle family whose house in the Ruchazie area of Glasgow was fire-bombed as they slept . |
| 21 | Gail Spiro , 41 , and her children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , were shot through the head as they slept in their beds . |
| 22 | Gail Spiro , 41 , and her children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , were shot through the head as they slept in their beds . |
| 23 | Some of them take a second or two to stop whirring and clacking as they wind tape off a drum . |
| 24 | Perhaps on a hundredth of those thousand times , seeing her there , it had moved him to think how in so many towns like Odborough men were looking up at her as they shut shops or walked home from mills and mines . |
| 25 | The only alteration in her face was the pucker of her lips melting into a pout of unrelieved gloom as they shut the door behind them . |
| 26 | There were unexplained hold-ups , enemy strongpoints catching the leaders in heavy fire perhaps , or a few moments ' loss of direction as they probed forward . |
| 27 | Still apparently relaxed , hands clasped behind his head , Luke spoke lazily , but his eyes were intent as they probed her taut face . |
| 28 | We keep open house here and they can come and go as they please before settling down , as many do , after a few attempts . |
| 29 | Children are often snappish and can not be touched ; they want to do as they please yet do not know what pleases them ! |
| 30 | The session should provide information on any restrictions placed on women including whether they are free to travel as they please and allowed to work . |