Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 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 .
4 I remembered Gerry saying she thought it must be a radio phone as it had so many digits .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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 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 ’ .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Challenging the fast-flowing stream , a black and white dipper ‘ swam ’ against the current , half-submerged as it snapped up aquatic delicacies .
13 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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