Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dragged their small boat for several miles and as it struggled to get free it spat out a human torso , some pieces of wetsuit and a face mask . |
| 2 | It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion . |
| 3 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
| 4 | Alexei remembered how Tulagai and Targoutai had fawned on Siban before Nogai had been elected Kha-Khan , and how they had voiced their support for Nogai , their own half-brother , as soon as it had become apparent that he had Burun 's vote . |
| 5 | As abruptly as it had become paralysed , her tongue was loosened . |
| 6 | Havel 's first journey abroad as President , to East and West Germany on Jan. 2 , represented a further break with tradition , as it had become customary for leaders of Soviet bloc countries to make their first foreign visit to Moscow . |
| 7 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 8 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 9 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 10 | Her logical mind accepted this possibility , as it had done countless times before , but she did n't think her brother would ever have considered suicide . |
| 11 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 12 | The final phase in the procedure involved giving parents advice about prospective job opportunities for their children , and this was considered to be the most difficult part of the work as it meant balancing all the different factors in an attempt to situate the best applicant in the best position . |
| 13 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
| 14 | As it began to get dark , we all settled around the guides ' fire , sharing the barbecued deer for supper . |
| 15 | As was pointed out earlier , it responded to popular taste , observing new taboos about racism and sexism , just as it helped demolish old ones of sexual modesty and obscene language . |
| 16 | The Nebula is over 1000 light-years away , and we know that fresh stars are being formed inside it , because one at least has been ‘ caught in the act ’ as it started to emit visible light . |
| 17 | Furthermore , as it appeared to have popular support from within the hobby , more detailed information was needed before reacting any further . |
| 18 | It was announced on Nov. 4 that the IMF had approved a US$30,800,000 standby credit for Mongolia in support of the government 's economic reform programme , as it attempted to arrest economic decline and restore financial discipline as a prerequisite for economic growth . |