Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood .
2 When this happens , one can see clearly displayed just the convulsions and contortions the lava goes through as it flows : the bands are tightly folded in tortuous patterns .
3 The wind sighed again as it swept through the ruined temple , and a little shudder went through Caroline .
4 The light speeded up as it got closer to you , but took ages to do the first part of the journey .
5 A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall .
6 Overhead the Ilyushin passed by as it set itself up for its final landing .
7 Successfully , for the whirlybird changed direction , heading straight for them , and Travis backed off , returning to the hut in time to shield her from the cloud of sand the machine whipped up as it landed .
8 NOTES Hits any models run over as it moves
9 An interaction exists just as it does in river processes .
10 The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement .
11 Now the rattle and roar of the tube faded abruptly as it surfaced into bright sunlight .
12 A curlew called out as it rose above the waters , then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes .
13 The place appears exactly as it has done through the ages , the only signs of man 's intrusion being a ruined bothy , an insecure footbridge and the thin track worn by hardy walkers .
14 This enables the bat to cool down as it flies , so if pterosaurs needed to cool down they must have worked their wings as they flew , and probably were endothermic .
15 Conventionalism fails here as it fails in cross-section , in explaining how particular hard cases like our samples are debated and decided .
16 VauDe Space takes less than five minutes to put up as it erects all in one
17 First the spiral opens out as it does in a shell , but then closes up again as it approaches the other pole of the cell .
18 The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ?
19 As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed .
20 As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed .
21 Our technique of solving the above equations has improved , and of course we are in a much better position now to evaluate the material constants , but fundamentally electromagnetic theory stands now as it stood a century ago .
22 She snatched up one of the spears racked handy beside the hearth , and her father ducked fast as it slashed just over his head into a tapestry hanging above the fire , cut a two-foot gash in Saint Peter 's side and raised a shower of sparks .
23 The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them .
24 The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room .
25 Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had .
26 The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead .
27 Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’
28 The consultation on the plans to devolve 80 per cent of school budgets to head teachers closes today as it faces growing opposition from education authorities .
29 By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy .
30 The row blew over as it did for Kurt Weinburg , who was taken out by an older friend for a night on the town .
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