Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long blade sang its death song , as it whirled in a gleaming figure-of-eight . |
| 2 | Officers saw the car as it went through a red light in Chester Road , Birmingham , at about 3 am . |
| 3 | Complete with authentic jeeps and US Army gear from World War Two the Hospital was allowed to briefly relive its past … as it beckoned in a new chapter in its future with a brand new entrance |
| 4 | She was still smiling , and still watching the cart as it crawled through a Gothic gatehouse and into the compound . |
| 5 | Christianity , as it arose as a messianic reform movement within Judaism in the first century AD , had some characteristics of an early reform Judaism . |
| 6 | The Cake Walk was supposed to be a most daring ride although if you held the rail whilst progressing around the U-shaped walk as it tossed like a rough sea , it was n't too bad . |
| 7 | Secondly , in so far as it spoke to a general enlargement of the mind , the student experience was not confined to the acquisition of mere technique . |
| 8 | True dawn came as a dirty yellow streak in the east that slowly lost its colour as it spread into a cold grey , filled with racing clouds . |
| 9 | The ‘ tseep-tseep ’ of a rock pipit echoed as it flew to a seaweed-strewn ledge . |
| 10 | He had , however , chosen to publicise his act of departure , and this public disavowal , coinciding as it did with a ferocious government anti-communist crackdown , was inevitably interpreted as a treacherous stab in the back that could not pass unavenged . |
| 11 | And as England found to their cost only last month , it is an ideal which still thrives on the Continent , Norway 's equaliser coming as it did from a 30-yard out-of-the-blue effort . |
| 12 | His advocacy of soldiers ' and workers ' councils put him wholly at variance with the Labour movement as it regrouped on a parliamentary socialist programme late in 1917 ; but it won him from Lenin and Litvinov the title of first Bolshevik consul for Britain , based in Scotland . |
| 13 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 14 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |