Example sentences of "[v-ing] as they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman was singing popular songs , and the holidaymakers were drinking and laughing as they ate their steaks . |
| 2 | He told himself that he had little to fear ; but he was sweating as they made their way into the city . |
| 3 | The roiling forms of her face resolved themselves like pieces of a multi-faceted jigsaw , turning and turning as they found their place , concealing countless other configurations — rare , wretched , bestial , dazzling — behind the shell of a congruous reality . |
| 4 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The feeling that something special was about to happen spilled over into an exhibition of appreciation then unparalleled on an English racecourse : the crowd applauded the rivals as they made their way on to the track and burst into cheering as they reached it . |
| 7 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 8 | Meantime Berndt gushed with the oil of social graces , pouring her a glass of wine she had no intention of drinking , ( she remembered the Tjerssens as Friend had shown her them , smiling as they gave you ruby venom ) , pouting when she refused his macaroons . |
| 9 | Many pupils who had left a schoolbook behind would rather risk punishment than walk through the dark room with the animals smiling as they watched you hunt for your things . |
| 10 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |