Example sentences of "as they [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massive stone structure stood out bravely amidst the miles of destruction , and the crew became interested as they had n't seen it in daylight before . |
| 2 | But as they had n't seen each other since the day they both left the house , I did n't think my debut in The Jungle Book was the best time for a reunion . |
| 3 | But , as they had n't seen Cara since Christmas , and it could be another five weeks , or more , since they saw her again , in the interests of enjoying this short while with her she held her peace , and prompted , ‘ You said ‘ Guess who 's … ’ . ’ |
| 4 | In fact , I only met one decorator … a young couple wanted to buy a piece and I offered them a discount as they had n't got a decorator - at which she drew herself up and said : ‘ We are not married . |
| 5 | Adventure and possibility lay before them , as they had not lain before Liz 's sister Shirley , who married at nineteen and stayed on in Northam , or before Dora Sutcliffe who left school at fifteen and sold sweets in Woolworth 's until she married Shirley 's husband 's brother Steve . |
| 6 | As the law stands the squatters had legal rights to live in their home as long as they had not forced entry . |
| 7 | In Athens , where I was competing alongside Nigel Walker and Lesley-Ann Skeet , two of our best hurdlers , I noticed some spots appearing here and there on my body , but as they did n't bother me , I ignored them . |
| 8 | And that , as long as they did n't expect me to turn up to every committee meeting . |
| 9 | The strip search seemed fairly pointless , inasmuch as they did n't go through my pockets . |
| 10 | People could think what they liked about her mental state , as long as they did n't stand in her way . |
| 11 | As soon as I saw you riding , I knew you 'd make it — so long as they did n't get to you . |
| 12 | Course if they started cutting up rough , then I 'd cut up rough but as long as they did n't interfere with me , I did n't interfere with them . ’ |
| 13 | The British could leave and half India would n't notice us leaving just as they did n't notice us arriving . |
| 14 | The group did little other than a few acts of minor sabotage , as they did n't have the arms to take on the Nazi army . |
| 15 | The islanders did n't have money then , and as they did n't have money they did n't know what ‘ poor ’ meant . |
| 16 | This also meant that they could get away earlier at night after the show , as they did n't need to wait for the curtain . |
| 17 | The plebeians are a bit thick , as they did n't see through Caesar . |
| 18 | If his guests picked up some pleasant female company at her party then that was fine … as long as they did n't enjoy that same female company on the premises . |
| 19 | Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth . |
| 20 | To do otherwise would be to break the long-established political tradition of allowing people to hold whatever views they liked , so long as they did not break the law or urge others to do so . |
| 21 | The Conservative Party continued the Labour practice of remaining aloof , though never actively criticising attempts at European union as long as they did not threaten what Britain conceived to be its own vital interests . |
| 22 | Such an attitude reflected the determination to decapitate the lower classes , in so far as they did not shed their potential leaders spontaneously by absorption into the lower middle class . |
| 23 | Our cell culture experiments do not support this suggestion as they did not show the synergy between EGF and TAGH that would be predicted , but because of the inhibitory effect of TAGH alone at the concentrations used , they can not refute this possibility . |
| 24 | As they did not regard the existing ‘ Democratic Republic ’ as representative of the people of Annam and Tonkin ( the question of Cochinchina tended not to be raised ) this obviously ruled out serious negotiation . |
| 25 | At best they were regarded as a distraction , if not a danger ; the assumption being that as they did not smoke or play outdoor games , ‘ they devote themselves … to inducing lads to leave humming-tops and marbles , and cleave only to them ’ . |
| 26 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 27 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 28 | No further steps were taken until 28th October , 1857 , when Wilson wrote to Hall , on behalf of the Lords of the Treasury , saying that as they did not want to incur additional expenditure on architects ' fees for further rejected plans for the Foreign Office , they had looked at Pennethorne 's plans and would use those . |
| 29 | ‘ International companies in particular were impressed as they did not want to move their top people into a cultural desert . |
| 30 | The Home Office sent a detective to report on the movements of ‘ the French people ’ — they were assumed to be foreign as they did not have a Somerset accent . |