Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 2 | Through an emissary , they threatened that if they had to withdraw — which was now inevitable — and the partisans attacked them as they retreated , the cities of Bologna , Reggio Emilia , Parma and Piacenza would be destroyed . |
| 3 | Finnan labelled them as they ate their evening meal . |
| 4 | With a quantity of black looks and complaints , the Guildsmen shuffled away towards their homes , and the Bishop blessed them as they went . |
| 5 | The preacher 's fiery words pursued them as they passed the house of Crutched Friars and turned left down an alleyway towards the Tower . |
| 6 | When she returned to the house , she found everything as they had left it and the fire still burning . |
| 7 | His fingers scorched her as they trailed through her hair , making her spine tingle . |
| 8 | He then filmed and photographed them as they were enveloped by seaweed and marine concretions . |
| 9 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 10 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 11 | It 's going to be all right — Jess told herself as they turned and began to climb . |
| 12 | And they would always be a perfect reminder , she told herself as they finally struggled back on board , loaded with parcels , none of which she had actually intended to buy . |
| 13 | ‘ Not that I had any doubts on the score , ’ Penry assured her as they set off towards Haverfordwest . |
| 14 | ‘ This is n't for research , as such , ’ she told him as they moved along the rows of apparatus . |
| 15 | ‘ I expect it 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ Zen told him as they shook hands . |
| 16 | ‘ Colder than this , ’ Schellenberg told him as they moved out through French windows and sat at a table on the pleasant terrace . |
| 17 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 18 | His blue eyes studied her as they leant together against the french windows in the sunlight . |
| 19 | They married in June 1789 , and a month later , in despair and rage , he murdered her as they walked in the darkness to the Castle of Comfort Inn . |
| 20 | Jack Bryson , the chief cameraman , told her as they waited for the director 's ‘ OK ’ to strike the set , a quizzical grin seaming his weather-beaten face . |
| 21 | ‘ This is Ca ’ del Serpente , ’ he told her as they drew level with a sinister-looking palazzo . |
| 22 | ‘ A car is meeting us , ’ Damian told her as they disembarked . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's a superb nightclub on the other side of the marina , ’ Damian told her as they drank coffee after their meal . |
| 24 | The operators ignored it as they were used to the odd US aircraft in the area . |
| 25 | Two days into the journey then met with torrential rain in northern Italy ; this was only to serve as a sign of things to come ; the icy roads and driving snow that faced them as they climbed the Alps ! |
| 26 | A third man joined them as they sought new sticks . |
| 27 | Newman followed them as they closed the door . |
| 28 | Faces followed them as they went slowly towards the museum exit and out into the sunlight . |
| 29 | The Myrcan followed them as they made their way towards the smell of horse piss and hay . |
| 30 | The memory seemed to worsen her limp ; her hip knocked his as they walked . |