Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The government is now washing its hands of the industry as it hands it over to a rigged market which will leave very few pits in Britain and the destruction of an asset which the British people asked the government to save and which the government said they were going to save . |
| 2 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 3 | the ball at the bottom , the rolly ball as it picks it up easier stops them , you do n't scratch the bottom of it . |
| 4 | It gives a better ending to the novel as it brings everything together but still leaves you thinking as it ends |
| 5 | and then go sa sa straight on down that road as it takes us down onto Castle Lane to then turn off for Sarah 's . |
| 6 | He lay for a long time , listening to the storm as it blew itself out . |
| 7 | The modern obsession with the tube — that evanescent twist of the wave as it curls itself up into the form of a vagina to lure in unwary youths like bees into the mouths of flowers — perpetuates the equation of surfing and sex . |