Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was risky — the sentry would be sure to hear their horse as it picked up speed — but crossing the dangerous waters of the Severn at night was riskier , and would point them in the wrong direction for Winchester . |
| 2 | Pte Clegg is one of six members of 3 Para on trial charged in connection with the deaths of the two teenagers , shot dead by soldiers who opened fire on the car as it sped along Upper Glen Road , Belfast , on September 30 , 1990 . |
| 3 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 4 | She looked mutinously at the scenery and listened to the clunking noises of the car as it trundled along , allowing minimal ventilation through the tiny windows that only slid across to open halfway . |
| 5 | A helicopter tracked the car as it weaved in and out of traffic near Bristol . |
| 6 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 7 | They followed the car as it tore down the M4 , finally reaching Bristol . |
| 8 | She could almost write his hurt for him , his wonder at another of Sylvie 's acts , trace the workings of his mind as it ferreted out reasons , laid blame at his own doorstep . |
| 9 | The joker , however , gives the present knowing that in the confusion as it goes off , it may be thrown the wrong way — into the face of the recipient 's partner . |
| 10 | However , such hypotheses are expected to emerge from the research as it goes along , rather than be specified from the start and used as a guide to the kind of data that is sought and collected . |
| 11 | It 's just a man failing to reappear , that 's all — now you see him , now you do n't that 's the only thing that 's real : here one minute and gone the next and never coming back — an exit , unobtrusive and unannounced , a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on , until , finally , it is heavy with death . |
| 12 | Second , you should try and incorporate your questions into the interview as it goes along and not leave them all to the end . |
| 13 | Windsor , 49 , of Mid Glamorgan , was trapped inside the jeep as it toppled over and kept on rolling . |
| 14 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |
| 15 | When awake , we normally reflect on the stream of consciousness as it goes on . |
| 16 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 17 | Again , how — if at all — does a mosquito perceive its own high-pitched ping as it closes in on its prey , a sound not uttered as it dances with its fellows in gay abandon in a summer evening 's cloud . |
| 18 | Only time will tell if John Gummer has the political clout — or inclination — to throw real weight behind the construction industry as it struggles out of recession . |
| 19 | LAMBS for live export could pose the biggest problem for the Scottish sheep industry as it sets out to establish a European Community approved national identification scheme before the July 1994 deadline . |
| 20 | A couple of policemen caught the boat as it came in alongside and steadied it . |
| 21 | He was specialising , with terrible irony as it turns out , in the treatment of women who had suffered sexual abuse and those who were HIV positive . |
| 22 | Puffing from the butt of a long gone joint , anticipating to squeeze the last speck , his hands blue from the cold icy wind as it runs in and out of his domain . |
| 23 | It will toss it into the air with its front paws , then try to catch it in its mouth as it comes down . |
| 24 | Skilled negotiators resist the temptation to counter propose and instead explore the pros and cons of each proposal as it comes up . |
| 25 | A passer-by noticed the suspicious object strapped underneath the vehicle as it drove out of a car park last night , but failed in a desperate attempt to alert the driver . |
| 26 | The next shot is of the traffic itself , and we pan with a quaint three-wheel vehicle as it passes by on its way to market with a cargo of onions . |
| 27 | The scarf was simply to protect her hair-do in that open vehicle as it bowled along at a business-like sixty kilometres per hour and , with the sunglasses , conferred upon her a touch of the Jackie Kennedy chic to which she was innocent enough to aspire . |
| 28 | Carolyn could hear the hissing of the sand as it fell on to the plastic and then , when it had covered the bottom of the carton , the way it fell almost silently , with a whisper of its former sound . |
| 29 | Theories and explanations must emerge from the work as it goes along . |
| 30 | The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish . |