Example sentences of "as it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it made the historic journey from being a charity team for Irish immigrants in Glasgow 's East End in 1888 to being a European Cup winning team in 1967 , there is a widely held myth that the club resents spending money and keeps its funds in the infamous biscuit tin , a closely guarded money chest under the Parkhead bed . |
| 2 | The court quashed the Minister 's decision on the ground that he should have considered the school 's application in the wider context and not only as it affected the particular school . |
| 3 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
| 4 | With an almost lazy climb the solid fuel missile , grapple irons extending as it left the short barrel , reached its zenith and fell back with a clang , hooking on to the deck railing . |
| 5 | Every now and then a jack pike would rupture the tranquillity as it marauded the easy pickings . |
| 6 | BRITISH Airways yesterday became the latest casualty of Black Wednesday as it revealed the slumping pound had helped cause profits to crash 80 per cent in the third quarter . |
| 7 | The sensation rocked through her , and she wanted only to remain there , feeling the suggestive thrust of his tongue as it explored the inner softness of her mouth and gently , expertly made her intensely and inescapably aware of the hard , pulsing heat of his virile manhood pressing insistently against her thighs . |
| 8 | The lorry changed into a lower gear as it reached the final slope . |
| 9 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 10 | His superbly detailed pencil drawing ( below ) of a loving mother elephant protecting her baby was an obvious choice , as it symbolised the protective spirit we all feel towards these magnificent creatures . |
| 11 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 12 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 13 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 14 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 17 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Up to the late 1950s this inflow of dollars was generally welcome as it relieved the earlier shortages . |
| 21 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in so far as it addressed the complex issue of home-school relationships in multi-ethnic contexts , it was an important initiative which deserves to be extended in some form . |
| 23 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 24 | They heard , like thunder , the explosion of its power as it struck the distant road , and saw the highway break and rise in two sections like two sides of a lifting bridge . |
| 25 | He allowed a long streamer of mucus to hang from his mouth , watching as it struck the white enamel of the sink and trickled slowly into the plughole , leaving a crimson slick behind it . |
| 26 | He heard the whirr of the bolt and shouted with pleasure as it struck the leading dog just behind the head , digging deep and slicing its spinal column . |
| 27 | The powers of the Federal government inevitably increased as it became the chief customer for the war materials poured out by industry . |
| 28 | The brilliance of the recent verbal firework display he put on at Westminster enchanted his party — just as it alarmed the Labour Party that John Smith proved such an easy target for him . |
| 29 | This was the era of competitive capitalism and the laisser-faire state which simply sought to guarantee freedom of contract and trade at the same time as it dismantled the restrictive apparatus of the feudal economy and secured public order at home and defence from abroad . |
| 30 | The performance should not be accepted as good consideration , since , as it discharged the previous contract , it was not a detriment at all . |