Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [adv] [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 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 3 | As it walked so browning leaves fell from its body . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had the car heater on and the whirring as it blew out hot air was beginning to annoy him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 8 | I remembered Gerry saying she thought it must be a radio phone as it had so many digits . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Despite its low calibre , the weapon was hard to control firing on-full automatic , as it threw out 1,500 rounds per minute . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Challenging the fast-flowing stream , a black and white dipper ‘ swam ’ against the current , half-submerged as it snapped up aquatic delicacies . |
| 17 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 18 | Images are powerful and subliminal , and this one was quite discriminatory as it projected precisely that Family of which society so approves . |
| 19 | He was surprised at its strength as it curled sic three inch long body around his index finger , and squeezed . |
| 20 | Richard gagged as it pushed too far head trapped against the pillow but it pulled back out . |