Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crying is more usual in the evenings and the baby may draw its legs up as it cries and become very red in the face . |
| 2 | He pushed it through the letter box and saw it flame up as it went through . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you send a compressed ZIP file down the wire , V42bis will actually slow things down as it struggles to compress the incompressible |
| 5 | But there will always be a hard core , roaring down a bottomless lane in an A70 pick-up with no piston rings and ninety degrees of play in the steering , white cricket cap pulled down over watering eyes , sheepdog barking its head off as it rushes to and fro in the cargo department . |
| 6 | Some people like to use a card for each question at this stage so that it is simple to move questions about as it seems desirable to order and re-order them in the best sequence . |
| 7 | Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way . |
| 8 | The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William . |