Example sentences of "as the [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | This caused much grumbling and complaining , as the masons considered they were anyway fighting a losing battle against the castle 's accelerating decay without its guests adding to their workload . |
| 2 | Support continues for as long as the parents feel they need it , and is renewed , if they wish , if and when the mother becomes pregnant again . |
| 3 | It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles . |
| 4 | They can travel easily in silty water only a metre or so deep , and as the waters recede they can remember the way back to the river bed along deep channels . |
| 5 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 6 | As the companies grew they came to regard exporting as being essential , but it proved difficult and expensive to unwind hastily entered-into agency agreements . |
| 7 | The music firms respond with a Chinese menu of good and bad arguments — which , taken all at once ( as the companies say they must be ) induce only dizziness and nausea . |
| 8 | But as the continents grew they gleaned more of the carbon from the oceans and atmosphere . |
| 9 | These are already helping us to give a better service to our customers and as the systems develop they will allow us to have a more pro-active role in service . |
| 10 | The separate populations would first constitute mere varieties of the original species , but as the modifications accumulated they would eventually become distinct species in their own right , unable to interbreed with the parent form even if they were brought back into contact with it . |
| 11 | Earlier this morning Home Office forensic experts were called in as the police believed they may be dealing with a murder investigation . |
| 12 | Cris tried to help , of course , but as soon as the ambulances came they sent him off to the local hospital , and that 's where he is now . |
| 13 | As the flowers mature they pass from one to another . |
| 14 | As the numbers increased they decided to form their own angling club under the chairmanship of operative , . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole nature of that part of the market is that as soon as the insurers found they had claims , they stopped the product rather than trying to build the book sensibly , ’ says Caroline Blackman . |