Example sentences of "as the [noun] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the inquest got underway at the jockey club , the home of National Hunt racing , Cheltenham was reviewing its own starting gate which is similar to the one at Aintree . |
| 2 | By the mid-Fifties , many of MGM 's greatest stars were drifting away , either voluntarily or forced , as the accountants hacked away at costs . |
| 3 | Trinidadians , disgusted by their violence ( they captured Mr Robinson and shot him in the leg ) , nevertheless reckoned that poor people had a lot to grumble about , as the government slashed away at public spending to rectify past extravagance . |
| 4 | But as the race got underway at Abu Dhabi , things started to go wrong . |
| 5 | Margery Clark , 54 , was checking the rear lights as the car surged backwards at Farnborough , Kent . |
| 6 | As the jeep moved away at speed I could still hear him shouting , then it was gone in a cloud of dust , road leading to the beaches to join the other wounded waiting to be shipped back to England . |
| 7 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 8 | As the term increases rapidly at the higher interest rates , you need to insert extra values of the interest rate to produce a smooth curve . |
| 9 | ‘ This is pure fabrication , ’ Legion protested as the Doctor looked across at one of the troopers , the one in the mirrored visor who had followed him in . |