Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 3 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 4 | Well theoretically I would wait as long as it took to wash the mess off the roof . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 6 | In this it met with the approval of the US Senate , as it avoided committing the USA to any action overseas , while answering the great yearning of the American people for peace in the world . |
| 7 | 1992 was a particularly difficult and frustrating year on the whole for the management business as it struggled to replace the loss of business from the private commercial sector , the mainstay in the past , and re-orientate its services to the public sector . |
| 8 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 9 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 10 | Coastal erosion , the advance of the sands , had interested him insofar as it had destroyed the estate of a landowner who then chose to relinquish the property rather than pay the requisite taxes . |
| 11 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 12 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 13 | Nigeria has just announced that it will not lift its generous petrol subsidy in June , as it had promised the IMF , out of fear that petrol riots would disrupt the presidential elections due to be held that month . |
| 14 | was joined as second defendant , but the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action against C.T. , as it failed to plead the covenant contained in the licence of 18 February 1974 . |
| 15 | His appearance , that first term , failed to impress everyone as it failed to impress the Master of his college . |
| 16 | The driver gunned the accelerator too hard in his anxiety and the car slid sideways , its rear wheels spinning as it tried to grip the tarmac , but only contacted the thin layer of overnight frost . |
| 17 | However , he went on to say that even if the sale had not been a consumer sale , the exclusion clause was unreasonable since the buyer would be left with no remedy insofar as it purported to exclude the merchantability provision . |