Example sentences of "as it [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every now and then a jack pike would rupture the tranquillity as it marauded the easy pickings . |
| 2 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 3 | Jay sat on the white balcony , shaded from a Mediterranean sun burning off white walls , sparking off a turquoise sea where the bright sails of a skiff were silk balloons shot with dazzle , sparkles of pure light bursting behind the boat as it skimmed the perfect waters . |
| 4 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 5 | Up to the late 1950s this inflow of dollars was generally welcome as it relieved the earlier shortages . |
| 6 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 7 | In such a case , Lawson J held that the sale was a consumer sale so that the exclusion clause was void insofar as it excluded the implied conditions under the SGA 1979 . |
| 8 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 9 | Arguably , this public proclamation of secretarian communist beliefs during the election campaign , alerting as it did the bourgeois authorities to the subversive political activities of this " Red Messiah " , and resulting in Nizan 's transfer to Auch , precipitated his decision to become a fully integrated member of the PCF . |
| 10 | Victor was known within Celtic language studies as the author of a seminal book whose title , The Decline of the Celtic Languages ( John Donald , Edinburgh , 1983 ) , disguised the richness of its scope , just as it disguised the alternative interests of the author . |