Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | An interaction exists just as it does in river processes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now the rattle and roar of the tube faded abruptly as it surfaced into bright sunlight . |
| 10 | A curlew called out as it rose above the waters , then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Conventionalism fails here as it fails in cross-section , in explaining how particular hard cases like our samples are debated and decided . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 21 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The row blew over as it did for Kurt Weinburg , who was taken out by an older friend for a night on the town . |
| 27 | Little puffs of gas jetted out as it turned around and searched the sky for a new target . |
| 28 | Let the hand spring away as it touches the skin . |
| 29 | And , as it is also obvious that this tendency is becoming a worldwide one , it means that the game will in due course suffer everywhere as it has suffered in South Africa . |
| 30 | I would have the gearbox checked out as it seems to be at fault . |