Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it walked so browning leaves fell from its body . |
| 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 | 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 | Challenging the fast-flowing stream , a black and white dipper ‘ swam ’ against the current , half-submerged as it snapped up aquatic delicacies . |
| 8 | Richard gagged as it pushed too far head trapped against the pillow but it pulled back out . |