Example sentences of "as it [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 2 | Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works . |
| 3 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 4 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 5 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 6 | A more appropriate image of Britain as it approaches the twenty-first century is of the economy governed by a not-so-hidden engine , working for greater inequality , both in rewards and life chances . |
| 7 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 8 | [ T ] he remarkable thing about the British press , as it entered the twentieth century , was its resemblance … to the press of mid-Victorian times , in some respects to that of pre-Victorian times . |