Example sentences of "as they [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If clients are able to pay the bill they can get advice from a solicitor as often as they desire and on whatever topic they choose . |
| 2 | The session should provide information on any restrictions placed on women including whether they are free to travel as they please and allowed to work . |
| 3 | She lets them come and go as they please and it is good for the crew . |
| 4 | The Council suggested the need for independent ‘ unified ’ research to ascertain the size and scope of the heroin problem , as they feared that otherwise a number of ‘ in-house ’ research papers would be produced which would lack coordination and the necessary overview . |
| 5 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
| 6 | As they played and as they sang and as they danced they made no mark on the sand at all . |
| 7 | On the one hand , they stated that , because they felt relatively isolated from the ‘ rest of the world ’ , counselling sessions provided a means of release , particularly as they felt that the counsellors were more in contact with their own reality than individuals from ‘ official ’ agencies : |
| 8 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 9 | They will be talking as they eat and it 's distracting and embarrassing to have to juggle something fussy and awkward while you 're trying to make new friends and business contacts . |
| 10 | partners own equity in those businesses and as they thrive and prosper and grow the value of that equity increases . |
| 11 | As they expanded and the matter particles got farther apart , one would be left with an expanding universe that contained hardly any particles and was still in the supercooled state . |
| 12 | I watched smiling as they owled and pussy-catted along the beach . |
| 13 | The two girls were silent as they cooked and when they had to speak to one another spoke in quick , urgent whispers . |
| 14 | The divisions are planted so that half the rhizome is above the soil surface , as they rot if covered with soil . |
| 15 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 16 | As they expand and gain in political significance , they may act to constrain the actions of their own host governments : reciprocity will be needed . |
| 17 | Gutters often ‘ click ’ as they expand and contract : a little silicone lubricant on the seals will help prevent this . |
| 18 | Most terns resemble graceful small gulls , with longer wings , deeply forked tail , and thinner , more pointed bills , often carried almost vertically downwards in their buoyant flight , as they hover and plunge into the water after their small fish prey . |
| 19 | The dwarf strained against him as they rolled and struggled in the mud . |
| 20 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 21 | Some suggested drugs , as they had when she was pregnant with William , others tried to explore her psyche . |
| 22 | They cleaved to each other , lips hard against lips , bodies crushed together , her heels against the small of his back , clinging there as they bucked and dived , soared and plummeted together . |
| 23 | It means rather that people act as though they know the principle just as they act as though they know the rules of grammar — though very few people can even begin to formulate them , and nobody can formulate them completely . |
| 24 | Frederica drank a lot of wine and said nothing , but watched everyone in turn , charged with unsatisfied curiosity as they lay and lazily tossed ideas between them . |
| 25 | I 'M as big a Trekkie as they come but even I was shocked at the grey hairs and swollen girths of my heroes in Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country ( CIC , PG , out now ) . |
| 26 | Drums and bass were as solid as they come and the keyboards filled in any gaps . |
| 27 | Sam was as ordinary as they come and proud of it . |
| 28 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 29 | He can sense the options as they come and go , day by day . |
| 30 | Not that I could ever do anything with Nelly , she 's soft as they come and bone-idle . |