Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 2 | My own solitude was as nothing compared with their constantly patrolled loneliness , without hope of escape . |
| 3 | As I noted in their recent Erato version of the Concerto , the Suisse Romande Orchestra is ‘ in very much better shape that it was in the 1950s and 1960s , and this new account supersedes earlier recommendations ’ . |
| 4 | And as I thought about their meaning , the tears slowed down until they stopped . |
| 5 | But a large plate of bread slices , nearly invisible beneath a glossy coating of dark red jam , caught my eye as I walked past their stall . |
| 6 | I put the branch two-handed over my right shoulder as I run up to them , jump over a small bush and then as I land at their side bring the branch swinging down . |
| 7 | Breeding birds include great artic skuas which dive at your head as you walk near their territories , rock doves , ringed plovers and red-throated divers . |
| 8 | Your only hope is to use him as a shield against the rest of the gang as you break through their line . |
| 9 | She knew as little about him now , his parents , his life , as she had at their first meeting . |
| 10 | The stars must have enjoyed her shouting out her catch phrase of ‘ 'old onto yer 'at ’ followed by her infectious laughter as she launched into their futures . |
| 11 | ‘ I like a woman who can keep to the time I give her , ’ Roman said as she came into their sitting-room . |
| 12 | Her mother 's moodswings began to terrify her , and she would slow to a careful frozen walk as she turned into their street . |
| 13 | The immediate sense-experiences with which his method begins are not part of a systematic record , and are very quickly left behind as one digs below their surface . |
| 14 | Among the visually handicapped pupils there will , of course , be as many heterogeneous characteristics as among children in any class , some being immediately attractive and outgoing , others timid or aggressive , just as one finds among their classmates . |
| 15 | They accepted us as long as we looked after their money and invested it . |
| 16 | Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather ; and about direction too , as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys . |
| 17 | It appears that the Airborne are puzzled by the French voices as we move through their positions . |
| 18 | Gail Spiro , 41 , and her children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , were shot through the head as they slept in their beds . |
| 19 | Gail Spiro , 41 , and her children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , were shot through the head as they slept in their beds . |
| 20 | It is by no means clear how farmers would react to any system which threatened to control their freedom to do as they please with their own land . |
| 21 | The castle dogs crept closer to the flames also , snapping lazily as they squabbled for their accustomed places near the warmth . |
| 22 | As they clung to their one point lead , they tackled ferociously , but one marginal infringement cost the game . |
| 23 | As they clung to their one point lead , they tackled ferociously , but one marginal infringement cost the game . |
| 24 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 25 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 26 | On the one hand we have the beguiling image of independent DNA replicators , skipping like chamois , free and untrammelled down the generations , temporarily brought together in throwaway survival machines , immortal coils shuffling off an endless succession of mortal ones as they forge towards their separate eternities . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , Christ , ’ he said again , for he was an Australian with a hangover and he shared a quarter tonner named Mrs Mangel with four other Australians with four other hangovers , and as they stirred in their sleeping bags in the morning they looked like five blind underground creatures disturbed by David Attenborough . |
| 28 | In extension of this , in-service education and training at its best is responsive both to teachers as individuals and to teachers as they function in their workplace . |
| 29 | As soon as they finished with their books the two girls made him tea . |
| 30 | She and John had been together again , as they had in their very first year . |