Example sentences of "[verb] as it [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dulé stalked the ladder again , and circled it , turning it with him as he paced ; again he bowed to his adversary , again he placed a foot on the lowest rung as it stood up held light by his right hand . |
| 2 | The problem is that it would be very hard to justify the cost : much of this could go on after students arrived , and the course modified as it went along . |
| 3 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 4 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 5 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 6 | Start with the stalwarts of the organisation and let the message fan out from there , snowballing as it goes along . |
| 7 | I play each whirr the dial made as it wound back , I clunk the recorder switches , I fidget with the stopwatch , and it gives him a pain between the eyes . |
| 8 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 9 | I noticed the leather of my shoes darken as it picked up the moisture from the grass . |
| 10 | Discovered as it went along ; and fed , |
| 11 | This methyl mercury is absorbed by small organisms in the water which are eaten by fish which are eaten by larger fish , and all the time the poison is being concentrated as it moves up the food chain . |
| 12 | Something clanged by the back axle , a rock presumably , and then , with the back still slithering sideways and the rear left wheel beginning to race as it fell off into space , the vehicle gave a sort of shudder and we were out , clear of water and on a hard surface again . |
| 13 | But that was n't enough , she reminded herself sharply , watching the male curlew as it waded out into the shallows , searching for food beneath the surface of the loch . |
| 14 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 15 | Marcia Fleat , 39 , was going to work at an old folk 's home when her Vauxhall was hit as it pulled out of a junction . |
| 16 | Here oak is useful , because it does n't mind being soaked in water all winter , although it will probably split as it dries out in summer . |
| 17 | Fresh wood can poison fish with its sap and acids , and stress filters as it rots down . |
| 18 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 19 | The bird 's darting eye sought his frantically before it glazed ; he thought as it twitched about on the hard dry clods that he might break its neck to bring its death throes to an end . |
| 20 | A bird slid past , wings soughing as it planed down towards the water below , darkening now with the beginnings of a breeze . |
| 21 | To allow the hot water to expand as it heats up , an expansion vessel is fitted ( together with an expansion relief valve in case the vessel should fail ) , and to provide protection against overheating three levels of safety must be built in — thermostat , energy cut-out and temperature/ pressure relief valve . |
| 22 | Expansion vessel to provide room for the water in the system to expand as it heats up |
| 23 | It has the speed , the stamina and the ability to think as it moves in for the kill and needs to out-think a twisting and turning rabbit . |
| 24 | Let's all wave as it goes by . |
| 25 | She put her glass down on a rock and walked into the waters of the lough , gasping as it rose up her thighs and touched her lower belly . |
| 26 | Andrew Ferguson , 25 , of Pelham Street , Hartlepool , was fined £100 and ordered to pay compensation of £117 to the woman driver of a car which he kicked as it slowed down at a road junction . |
| 27 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |
| 28 | The fourth stair up creaked as it eased back into place . |
| 29 | The naked skin of its trunk reveals every wrinkle and crease as it moves about and to many eyes this makes it the ugliest cat in existence . |
| 30 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |