Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government responded to this pressure : the Bill differed in some respects from the White Paper , and the Bill itself was constantly amended as it went through Parliament . |
| 2 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 3 | ‘ So Ryan 's stuck with a piece of land he ca n't develop and can only sell as it stands at market value ? ’ she asked , beginning to enjoy the irony of it . |
| 4 | Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium . |
| 5 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 6 | And then he wondered why it was that he had n't heard that satisfying little clunk the coin usually made as it dropped inside the machine . |
| 7 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 8 | Food in a fibre-rich diet stays in the stomach longer ; and it seems probable that the food is less efficiently digested as it goes through the digestive tract . |
| 9 | In all probability , his budget will be substantially rewritten as it trails through the Congressional maze and the eventual outcome may be quite at odds with the president 's original intention . |
| 10 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 11 | My master , who had found a similar one on the port side , first tried his cloak but then cursed as it went into the lake and he had to stop the hole with the heel of his boot . |
| 12 | The book starts with the personal , and then shifts as it progresses to more interpersonal and organizational perspectives . |