Example sentences of "as they [vb past] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The castle dogs crept closer to the flames also , snapping lazily as they squabbled for their accustomed places near the warmth . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you enjoying your new job ? ’ he asked as they waited for their order to be filled . |
| 3 | FERGIE and her daughters had to mingle with ordinary travellers at Heathrow yesterday as they waited for her sister to arrive from Australia . |
| 4 | And they were so patient as they waited for me to finish with my other visitors . |
| 5 | The girls suffered agonies of exposure as they waited for them to reach their seats . |
| 6 | Tim and Butch beat the ferns angrily with their guns as they hunted for her , and once they came so close that Mary 's heart almost stopped beating . |
| 7 | ‘ By the skin of our teeth ! ’ said Gloria as they scurried for their places at table . |
| 8 | ‘ I resigned at the same time as they asked for my resignation . |
| 9 | We were woken at the crack of dawn by the pitter patter of seagulls as they pecked for their breakfast . |
| 10 | A squire 's trick , the Corn Laws , banning the import of cheap foreign corn — which would have meant cheap bread in the cities — so that the squires , who grew the stuff on those ancestral lands of theirs could charge as much as they liked for it . |
| 11 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 12 | Shiona took his arm as they headed for her office . |
| 13 | The opportunities of 1992 , however , could lead to a progressive harmonisation of anti-discriminatory legislation , and the changes in Eastern Europe provide further cause for us to extend our solidarity to lesbians and gays all over Europe , as they did for us . |