Example sentences of "[adv prt] as it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It jolted up the lane , slowed down as it came out into the open area in front of the quarry gates , and stopped . |
| 2 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 3 | He pushed it through the letter box and saw it flame up as it went through . |
| 4 | The light speeded up as it got closer to you , but took ages to do the first part of the journey . |
| 5 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 6 | The plane touched down , bounced up again , slewed sideways and skidded along the runway , breaking up as it did so ; the port wing broke off and the rest of the plane turned over on top of it . |
| 7 | He glanced round again , but the Thing , the Beast , the Monster , or whatever it was , was hidden from his sight by the smoke it shot out as it galloped forward . |
| 8 | Little puffs of gas jetted out as it turned around and searched the sky for a new target . |
| 9 | If you have failed to brief them properly then they have little option but to either put it on hold or send it back as it came out and let you sort it out . |