Example sentences of "as they [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suspected Sikh terrorists killed 19 Hindu students visiting the town of Patiala for a students ' festival on Nov. 10 as they slept in dormitories . |
| 2 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 3 | I had forgotten how large they were ; they seemed enormous , and there were so many of them , circling overhead , clustered in a tree or hopping about as they squabbled over carrion . |
| 4 | BR could not avoid passing its dramatically increased costs following the oil crisis on to its customers , especially London commuters , and as they reduced in number ( demand falling at 1 per cent a year ) services , stock and facilities were reduced to ‘ match demand ’ , inevitably causing poor morale . |
| 5 | Unrestricted access to industrialized country markets , the report said , would increase developing countries ' export earnings by US$55,000 million , as much as they received in aid [ see p. 37476 ] . |
| 6 | Thus the church added twelve through ‘ biological growth ’ as they became of age for church membership . |
| 7 | The news had spread like the Great Plague as they gathered for Assembly , and underneath the frank , animal sensationalism of their reception of the news there was uncertainty , and fear . |
| 8 | Protestors were joined by York MP Hugh Bailey and City Councillors as they gathered at Heworth on Saturday . |
| 9 | Further down I saw kittiwakes , with their gentle dark eyes and neat nests ; below them , in deeper crevices , the ugly shags with their uglier young , showing the brilliant apricot gape of their beaks as they craned for food . |
| 10 | With the Pakistan ball-tampering row at its height , Gower has embarrassed Lord 's by claiming the 1990 India tourists scuffed the ball at The Oval as they pressed for victory . |
| 11 | As they crossed in front of the Queensway Tunnel for the final sprint up William Brown Street , 23-year-old Nadobenko was going so fast he mounted the kerb and bounced back but still had the strength to cross the line in first place . |
| 12 | They climbed in , and no talk was made as they journeyed down Bath Street towards the Exchange ; , evidently Mrs Heatherton felt that she had done all that was required of her . |
| 13 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 14 | Many bishops emerged as the saviours of their cities as they arranged for famine relief and secured the ransom of prisoners during the years of crisis . |
| 15 | United set off as they finished at Hillsborough on Boxing Day , like executioners seeking instant judgment . |
| 16 | At least she assumed that was who they were as they walked with Leo down the lane towards her ; she did n't wait to be introduced . |
| 17 | The pair were having a right old giggle as they walked through Heathrow airport , despite a tiring flight from Los Angeles . |
| 18 | Brownie Owl broke the grim news to the Brownies the following weekend as they walked towards Quandom Wood , where they were going to play some tracking games . |
| 19 | ‘ We can learn a lot from animals , ’ Vic said as they walked towards Mr Zamoyski 's shop . |
| 20 | This sort of behaviour was tiresome but bearable and , as they walked to Druid 's Grove , Carrie thought she quite liked him . |
| 21 | Police want to talk to anyone who was in the Crown Street , Priestgate or Melland Street areas at about 4.40pm on Monday or anyone who saw the three as they walked to Melland Street . |
| 22 | After Mass they talked , chatting about this and that , as they walked from Southwark across London Bridge to meet Cranston and his wife at the Golden Pig , a comfortable tavern on the city side of the river . |
| 23 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 24 | It was clear that the events of 17 May 1968 had left their mark on him as indelibly as they had on Willy Morpurgo . |
| 25 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 26 | Opinions about the value of the new drugs varied , as they had about tranquillizers . |
| 27 | I felt tears come into my eyes as they had into Flora 's at dinner . |
| 28 | But history will record that McLaren solved its problem ( by setting up the car as they had for Spain ) , Hunt was on pole alongside Niki , Niki led the race for eight laps until his engine blew , Hunt then led it but was put under heavy pressure by Depailler , was suffering from the dry heaves inside his helmet and somehow survived to win a race from which Niki garnered nothing . |
| 29 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 30 | Forty years earlier , modern architects and town planners in the West would no doubt have made pilgrimages to the demolitions and building sites in Bucharest and around Romania as they had to Stalin 's new Moscow . |