Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 2 | As it walked so browning leaves fell from its body . |
| 3 | I remembered Gerry saying she thought it must be a radio phone as it had so many digits . |
| 4 | The impact angle was very shallow and the aircraft was apparently under some control as it settled only three feet over a horizontal distance of 420 feet . |
| 5 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 6 | By selling 12 times as much wine as it did only five years ago , Australia outsells the US , and with the exchange rate currently working in our favour , prices are getting cheaper all the time . |
| 7 | It began to pick up speed and as it did so larger fireworks were detonated , so that showers of sparks and clouds of coloured smoke trailed behind like a peacock 's tail , green and red and blue . |
| 8 | Images are powerful and subliminal , and this one was quite discriminatory as it projected precisely that Family of which society so approves . |
| 9 | He was surprised at its strength as it curled sic three inch long body around his index finger , and squeezed . |
| 10 | Richard gagged as it pushed too far head trapped against the pillow but it pulled back out . |