Example sentences of "they [vb past] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 2 | What opulence they met as they settled into their private salons : Spanish leather armchairs embossed with gold , mahogany panelling inlaid with rosewood marquetry , damask curtains held by silk cords with gold tassels , thickly-carpeted floors , and each compartment was heated . |
| 3 | And just lately they got as they do er whatsername . |
| 4 | This they avoided as they followed their Head Girl 's strict instructions to keep out of the rough areas . |
| 5 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 6 | Simmo , who has become a favourite of pupils of Hurworth Primary School , near Darlington , described the slow build up to the conflict and the dangers they encountered as they came within four miles of the Kuwaiti coast . |
| 7 | ‘ Up the 'Ammers ! ’ they roared as they charged headlong and then half stumbled and half marched to the far end of the meadow . |
| 8 | She was unaware of any undue familiarity between herself and her cousin ; they seemed as they had always seemed since childhood . |
| 9 | They pushed WPC Sarah Pengelley to the ground , but she chased them and retrieved jewellery worth £5,500 which they dropped as they fled . |
| 10 | When they left the house next morning , to a sunny , rain-washed world , the first thing they noticed as they stepped out of the drive was a charcoal BMW with two young men in it , parked twenty yards from the front gate . |
| 11 | The test is not what the defendants contemplated as a likely or even an inevitable consequence of their conduct ; it is ‘ what is in truth the object in the minds of the combiners when they acted as they did ? ’ |
| 12 | They hint at how people thought and felt , at why they acted as they did . |
| 13 | The secret , he said , was to throw them high into the trees so they dispersed as they fell . |
| 14 | The girls all had wodges of visiting cards in their stocking tops which they threw as they grabbed their victim , and these had the Boozebusters logo — a picture of a drunk in a red circle , with a red slash — and Simon 's phone number on them . |
| 15 | They yelled as they came . |
| 16 | Even the balloons they released as they gambolled about seemed to have a sleek , benevolent look as they rose , passing a shower of confetti as dense and continuous as the applause on its way down . |
| 17 | Mary showed him the work she had done in the garden , and they talked as they cut and cleared . |
| 18 | They talked as they ran , and he was elated . |
| 19 | Of Time In They sang as they walked along the clause as they walked along tells when they sang . |
| 20 | ‘ The Campbells are comin' , ’ they sang as they charged back . |
| 21 | ‘ Left , left , I had a good job an' I left , ’ they chanted as they went . |
| 22 | ‘ Erewiggo , erewiggo , erewiggo , ’ they chanted as they set off . |
| 23 | They went as they had appeared , at night . |
| 24 | The footwear they chose as they tramped and danced their way towards the end of the decade was improbable-looking to say the least . |
| 25 | And they won as they pleased against Omagh , despite the absence of four first team regulars . |
| 26 | The sound of the crash turned every head , and they smiled as they saw her hustled away towards his office . |
| 27 | They smiled as they caught his eye . |
| 28 | They paused as they heard the silver tones of a bell and , peering through the trees , saw a procession of villagers crossing the fields . |
| 29 | They wrote as they breathed , and their talk and their books were openly and unblushingly self-revelatory . |
| 30 | They relaxed as they counted the money into seventeen bundles of a hundred and fifty thousand , and some of them left their fingerprints . |