Example sentences of "as it [verb] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart Taylor was lucky enough to be on RF325 as it took its last bow . |
| 2 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
| 3 | Just as birdsong awoke the unit , an owl is heard calling as it flies its nightly patrol over |
| 4 | Yeltsin confirmed that the 1961 treaty of friendship , co-operation and mutual assistance between North Korea and the Soviet Union was no longer effective , and that Russia would not provide financial or military support for the Pyongyang regime until such time as it improved its human rights record and adopted a more co-operative stance on the issue of nuclear inspection . |
| 5 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 6 | It 's circulation was peaking as it reached its fiftieth edition . |
| 7 | Her face looked calm and beautiful as it slept its enforced slumber , the lips slightly parted , the dark curls spilling over a pale cheek . |
| 8 | We used to count as it played its seven colours |
| 9 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 10 | As it continues its unhurried survey I begin to feel a grim human intent behind that gaze . |
| 11 | Caroline held her breath as they stood in the silence , watching as it began its final plunge , and , at just the moment it painted the world crimson , Nicolo put his hands on her shoulders . |
| 12 | In Kepler 's construction of the solar system , each planet had its own melodic line associated with a changing speed that increased as it approached its closest point to the sun . |
| 13 | ‘ We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth , and the great river shrinks into insignificance as it dashes its angry waves against the walls and cliffs that rise to the world above ; the waves are but puny ripples , and we but pygmies , running up and down the sands or lost among the boulders . |
| 14 | Few rivers can compare in scenic beauty with the Tamar as it winds its magic course between Cornwall and England . |
| 15 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 16 | The effect of the Polish Corridor was to send the East Prussian economy into an abrupt and dizzying nosedive as it lost its traditional markets for beef , grain , timber , fur , sugar-beet and alcohol . |
| 17 | Integrating Evode 's chemicals and plastics businesses with its own activities without dilution was on schedule , Laporte said yesterday as it unveiled its 1992 results . |
| 18 | I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave . |
| 19 | A HIGH-TECH electronics firm has more than doubled interim pre-tax profits as it expands its world-wide operation , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 20 | The aircraft was seen by a reliable observer as it initiated its first overshoot ; within two minutes he had telephoned saying that the aircraft was only 50m above the ground and heading south . |
| 21 | ‘ The division faces another difficult year ahead as it completes its fundamental restructuring and positions itself to become a viable business in niche markets , ’ the company declared . |
| 22 | A ‘ DYNAMIC new image ’ for Mayfest , as it enters its second decade , was unveiled in Glasgow yesterday by its director , Robert Robson . |