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 | He let the film run again , watching as it cut to a later moment when Fischer had interrupted the meeting to tell the T'ang about the fire . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | She was still smiling , and still watching the cart as it crawled through a Gothic gatehouse and into the compound . |
| 6 | Christianity , as it arose as a messianic reform movement within Judaism in the first century AD , had some characteristics of an early reform Judaism . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The ‘ tseep-tseep ’ of a rock pipit echoed as it flew to a seaweed-strewn ledge . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |