Example sentences of "as they [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 2 | A MOTHER and her two children were mown down by joyriders as they waited at a bus stop . |
| 3 | As they waited at a pedestrian crossing Merrill watched a boy and girl kiss by the fountain in the square , then she blushed as she realised that Luke was watching her . |
| 4 | ‘ And they said they was just farmers , like us , ’ mused Jonadab , as they rode at a walk through the high arched entrance and into the stable-yard . |
| 5 | SINGER Cher and her Bon Jovi guitarist toyboy Richie Sambora , right , fuelled rumours of a wedding as they hugged at a London party . |
| 6 | The story of victims number 37,38 and 39 was : ‘ In an apparent ambush , a gang member , fourteen , is killed and two others are wounded as they stand at a bus stop . ’ |
| 7 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |
| 8 | The key point is that the old , regulated financial systems stopped people from borrowing as much as they wanted at a given level of interest rates . |