Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was more like Jewish rabbinical study , where students chant the words of the Talmud aloud as they memorise them , rather than the silent , interior disciplines of a Buddhist monk . |
| 2 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 3 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 4 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 5 | Sister Mary Leahy , who organised the prayer week at Seacroft , explained the purpose of these personal interviews ; ‘ Prayer is a relationship with God , so as a prayer guide , I would want to help people to recognise God in their lives — relating person to person — speaking to God and listening to him — coming to God just as they are and not as they think they ought to be . ’ |
| 6 | That 's the important thing about discipline , to make them see themselves as they really are , not as they think they are . |
| 7 | Political theories and doctrines are both affected by political conditions and the needs of practical action , just as they influence them in turn ; and changes in these conditions are largely responsible not only for the more or less continuous process of reinterpretation of the ideologies of political parties and movements , but also for the more profound revision of theoretical conceptions . |
| 8 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |
| 9 | Others cash in by selling aircraft as soon as they get them to consortiums of banks and investors — and then lease them back . |
| 10 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 11 | As soon as they see they got the microphone they go |
| 12 | Believing , as fervently as they say they believe in their Almighty , that money can make up for anything , even bad taste and bad manners . |
| 13 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 14 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 15 | Despite this , most people persist in proposing their ideas at least twice as often as they suggest them ! |
| 16 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |