Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ? |
| 2 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut , someone knocked . |
| 5 | Three DFC 's and one DSO have been won in Sugar , and just as it began its career with a daylight attack , it finished with another . |
| 6 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 7 | Halfway through the final allegro the world came into existence again , as quietly and effortlessly as it had gone . |
| 8 | She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home . |
| 9 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 10 | He screamed again and again as it came closer , certain that it had been sent to judge him . |
| 11 | The crush bolt made a dragging , trailing sound across the floor , once to open and again as it closed . |
| 12 | The expected train eventually arrived , but just as it approached , one channel of the recorder inexplicably failed , ruining the recording . |
| 13 | The Guinness takeover of Distillers is studied , not just as an example of a keenly contested takeover , but also as it demonstrated what many saw as the unacceptable sides of takeover activity and the City of London . |