Example sentences of "[coord] as they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 2 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 3 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |
| 4 | Clouds of steam would rise as they scooped beneath the surface of the warm fermenting heap , and as they carried their loaded baskets through the frosty morning air . |
| 5 | He laughed , and as they began their walk he put his arm very lightly round her shoulders . |
| 6 | And as they weaved their way from the stores lining the streets he explained what he had in mind . |
| 7 | Exactly , and as they took him back to his room , not his cell , but his room , he turned to my , my mate who was with me and said er , I do n't want an operation I like having sex with little girls , he said now I 've got two little girls and I had to turn and walk away |
| 8 | Fen seemed to know a great deal about the area , and as they ate their sandwiches , served with a generous helping of salad , he talked continuously , so unlike his normal taciturn self that Robbie suspected he was steering clear of more personal and controversial topics . |
| 9 | In all societies older people tell younger ones about the past , and as they tell it , they transform it : a man 's experience is his grandson 's tradition . |
| 10 | The principal rivers of the Empire flow from the east to the west , and as they converge they become greater still . |
| 11 | And as they marched they 'd joyously sing , |
| 12 | The more nitrogen they have available , the better marine plants will grow , and as they grow they take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere . |
| 13 | Once hatched , they begin to feed on zooplankton and as they grow they prey on larger species and they are even cannibalistic . |
| 14 | As they played and as they sang and as they danced they made no mark on the sand at all . |
| 15 | They rehearsed the scene over and over again and as they repeated it Willie believed more than ever that he was the old man . |
| 16 | A quickening trot now , and as they neared their target he could see the puffs of smoke from the little houses , stone walls and trees ahead , as French and Russians fought for possession of the village they called Telnitz . |
| 17 | Well , the answer is , giraffes tried to eat food on higher branches of trees , strained upwards , and as they strained they stretched their necks and they passed on their stretched necks to their , to their descendants . |
| 18 | ‘ Most of us were standing by the control tower when the Fortress guns opened up to the Northward , and coming through the Flak we saw a series of black dots approaching directly towards us and as they closed we recognised them as yellow-nosed Me109s . |
| 19 | At the end of the tunnel there was another crossroads , and as they entered it Jotan appeared , sword in hand . |
| 20 | And as they learn their native language , they also use language to learn other things . |
| 21 | He had the expatriate knack of being lent things and getting himself looked after on his return to the native land , and as they talked it became apparent that we were to be entertained to lunch by the gallery owner . |
| 22 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |
| 23 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |
| 24 | But as they said it I felt something being pulled round my neck . |
| 25 | But as they analyse what he has said to different people , they begin to see that the question is not really pertinent . |
| 26 | As young animals most are carnivorous , but as they mature they consumer more vegetable matter in their diet . |
| 27 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 28 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 29 | But as they checked their tiny forces — a hundred or so ashore — the first German Stosstruppen , Thrust Troops , were moving into the docks over the bridges of the submarines ' basin 's southern lock ( 'D' ) at 0150 hours . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a party came over from Prince 's , trollies and all , but as they paid we could hardly object . ’ |