Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman .
2 Pte Clegg is one of six members of 3 Para on trial charged in connection with the deaths of the two teenagers , shot dead by soldiers who opened fire on the car as it sped along Upper Glen Road , Belfast , on September 30 , 1990 .
3 He had the car heater on and the whirring as it blew out hot air was beginning to annoy him .
4 Isobel stepped out into the corridor , quiet except for the ever-present low murmur of the station 's output as it played over unobtrusive speakers .
5 This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land .
6 They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant .
7 None of their trees had been coppiced , so that knolls of tall beeches and huge , spreading oaks delayed the eye as it swept over rolling pastures and ploughed fields .
8 Despite its low calibre , the weapon was hard to control firing on-full automatic , as it threw out 1,500 rounds per minute .
9 Challenging the fast-flowing stream , a black and white dipper ‘ swam ’ against the current , half-submerged as it snapped up aquatic delicacies .
10 The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom .
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