Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
| 2 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 3 | He pushed it through the letter box and saw it flame up as it went through . |
| 4 | I was n't going that far today , but I could hear the bulldozer they used sometimes to spread the garbage around as it revved and pushed . |
| 5 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 6 | A theory for this cloud was proposed by Chang and Burnetti in Nature ( vol 314 , page 676 ) : that a meteor had encountered the cloud deck just as it shattered , producing heat that warmed the cloud layer over a large area . |
| 7 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 8 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 9 | In the south of France , and especially the southeast , the legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Gothic architecture just as it had on Romanesque here before this . |
| 10 | And she typed the dream exactly as it had come to her . |
| 11 | News of the final terms caused the shares to bounce 31p to 558p yesterday as it became clear that they were much more favourable to Kingfisher than the market feared when negotiations between the two sides came to light earlier this month . |
| 12 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 13 | The sun left a red stain behind as it retreated below the horizon . |
| 14 | If it chooses to interfere , it can formulate its decision in the words : ‘ The court below had no jurisdiction to decide this point wrongly as it did . ’ |
| 15 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |
| 16 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 17 | Adam was trapped in the open and he sprinted towards a deep tank track as the aircraft swung towards him , nose low as it gathered speed . |
| 18 | The ice made a crackling sound now as it froze harder and the wipers shifted it . |
| 19 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 20 | Quiss waited for the scullion to draw breath , and looked round the kitchens again as it did so . |
| 21 | Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out . |
| 22 | The obvious solution is to stop filling scarce space with bulky rubbish just as it left the bin : switch to recycling and incineration . |
| 23 | TIMING was not on the side of Thames Television yesterday as it unveiled the £57million purchase of American TV production house Reeves . |
| 24 | When … our Soviet rivals recognised they could not match us … and as their own system indisputably failed the Soviet people even as it abused them — then came the turning point . ’ |
| 25 | Russian opposition to the concession even as it stood was defused by presenting the Persian text to the Russian delegation when the Russian 's translator was known to be out of town . |
| 26 | The Lieutenant 's horse was tossing its head , snorting , raising its bright hooves high as it trampled the crop . |
| 27 | Masklin reached the door just as it opened . |
| 28 | The American researchers got around the problem by synchronising a pulsed laser and a pulsed gas jet so the pulse of laser light hit the gas just as it emerged from the jet into the vacuum chamber . |
| 29 | Hungary lost much foreign creditor confidence as a consequence of the general deterioration in its economic performance just as it approached a period when it needed substantial foreign loans to service its debts , finance its convertible currency account deficit and replenish hard currency reserves . |
| 30 | The driver took the road carefully as it dipped and turned , and forded rivers that shone like a newly tarred road and roared and pounded against the floor . |