Example sentences of "[adv] as it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ;
2 But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did .
3 The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation .
4 As suddenly as it began , the rain ceased .
5 The rain stops as suddenly as it came .
6 I heard screams of anguish , then the attack faded away as suddenly as it came .
7 The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again .
8 Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started .
9 Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed .
10 The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back .
11 It died as suddenly as it had risen .
12 When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon .
13 It fell silent as suddenly as it had begun .
14 Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery .
15 But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted .
16 I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me .
17 Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived .
18 The beating ceased , as suddenly as it had begun .
19 I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come .
20 His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball .
21 He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them .
22 But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up .
23 Once Baldwin 's decision was made , the right-wing plot collapsed as suddenly as it had grown up and , as always after prolonged but successful mental strain , he felt free .
24 The question , coming suddenly as it did , caught Tam unguarded .
25 This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops .
26 The coach drove back through Cardiff , and past the High School — which looked , and was , much as it had been .
27 Life went on at home much as it had done for years .
28 Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees .
29 Much as it pained her to meekly obey , Shannon clambered slowly to her feet , muttering darkly beneath her breath .
30 Much as it infuriated her , Shannon knew when she was beaten .
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