Example sentences of "as they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 2 | As they break for food the general conversation is n't much toned down for her benefit . |
| 3 | Paul , 23 , and Charlotte , 21 , were killed by boiler fumes as they slept at her mother 's home at Horsham , Sussex . |
| 4 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 5 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 6 | ‘ These people were cold bloodedly shot in the head as they slept in separate bedrooms . ’ |
| 7 | Suspected Sikh terrorists killed 19 Hindu students visiting the town of Patiala for a students ' festival on Nov. 10 as they slept in dormitories . |
| 8 | Gail Spiro , 41 , and her children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , were shot through the head as they slept in their beds . |
| 9 | Gail Spiro , 41 , and her children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , were shot through the head as they slept in their beds . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We keep open house here and they can come and go as they please before settling down , as many do , after a few attempts . |
| 12 | It 's wrong the Blacks ca n't do as they please in South Africa , it 's as much their country as the Whites . |
| 13 | As they tottered through the trees this Wednesday morning , she felt herself shaking from somewhere deep inside . |
| 14 | A few tall plants ( or upright stones or bogwood ) just in front of the back of the tank will add to the impression of depth , as they contrast with the background paper , breaking up its flatness . |
| 15 | ‘ He ought not to be standing about in that cold church porch ! ’ muttered Meredith as they strode towards him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The castle dogs crept closer to the flames also , snapping lazily as they squabbled for their accustomed places near the warmth . |
| 18 | There was no wind and the smoke rose straight from the farm chimneys and the bare branches of the roadside trees were still as they stretched across the cold sky . |
| 19 | But he envied more the great herring gulls and black-headed gulls which he watched through the bars of his cage as they soared on the summery winds , the white and grey of their feathers caught brightly by the sun as they banked into a turn . |
| 20 | Desert Orchid had often won from worse positions , but he seemed unable to quicken , and was half a length down on his two younger rivals as they landed over the last obstacle . |
| 21 | Brushing past the tall ferns , she noticed that the halo of flies buzzing around her head had increased , and she swatted them angrily as they landed on her face and arms . |
| 22 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 23 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 24 | The book is based on the year that Mackay spent in London in 1887–1888 and describes events of that Jubilee Year , especially as they touched on the lives of the socialist and anarchist German exiles there . |
| 25 | The last glowing embers in the fireplace knock as they settle among the ash . |
| 26 | The Elizabethan nobleman who defended the episcopate because , " As they shoot at bishops now , so will they do at the nobility also , if they be suffered " , was not wide of his mark . |
| 27 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 28 | It was just a spur-of-the-moment plan to rid himself of Doreen , she decided , but , even so , her arms became firmer as they clung to him . |
| 29 | As they clung to their one point lead , they tackled ferociously , but one marginal infringement cost the game . |
| 30 | As they clung to their one point lead , they tackled ferociously , but one marginal infringement cost the game . |