Example sentences of "as it [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart Taylor was lucky enough to be on RF325 as it took its last bow . |
| 2 | Their publication was a speculation which — so far as it made me known & procured me employment in Zoological drawing — answered my expectations — but in matters of money occasioned me considerable loss . |
| 3 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
| 4 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 5 | Just as birdsong awoke the unit , an owl is heard calling as it flies its nightly patrol over |
| 6 | Elsewhere , in the works of Gyorgy Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel , it could question the very bases of musical performance , extending the range of expression and gesture at the same time as it undermined their very validity , and begin to colonise the imprecise border country between theatre , music and performance art . |
| 7 | Yeltsin confirmed that the 1961 treaty of friendship , co-operation and mutual assistance between North Korea and the Soviet Union was no longer effective , and that Russia would not provide financial or military support for the Pyongyang regime until such time as it improved its human rights record and adopted a more co-operative stance on the issue of nuclear inspection . |
| 8 | Others may have had a succession of live-in boy or girl friends , lasting as long as it suited them both . |
| 9 | There must have been a lot of that sort of thing , when you come to think about it : tolerating ideological undesirables as long as it suited your own book — not that National Socialism had much ideology beyond being first at the trough . |
| 10 | Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’ |
| 11 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 12 | It 's circulation was peaking as it reached its fiftieth edition . |
| 13 | Her face looked calm and beautiful as it slept its enforced slumber , the lips slightly parted , the dark curls spilling over a pale cheek . |
| 14 | We used to count as it played its seven colours |
| 15 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 16 | As it continues its unhurried survey I begin to feel a grim human intent behind that gaze . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the topic remains a fascinating one : the magic of seeing animals like Melia , as it waves its two fearsome anemones at a predator , is not to be denied . |
| 18 | Caroline held her breath as they stood in the silence , watching as it began its final plunge , and , at just the moment it painted the world crimson , Nicolo put his hands on her shoulders . |
| 19 | In any event , it seems clear that the follow-on loan is generally bad for consumers , as it restricts their potential credit choice by binding them even more firmly into one type of weekly-collection credit . |
| 20 | In Kepler 's construction of the solar system , each planet had its own melodic line associated with a changing speed that increased as it approached its closest point to the sun . |
| 21 | The Buckley-Valeo ruling supported the rise in campaign spending as it declared it unconstitutional to limit the personal contributions of a candidate for their own campaign . |
| 22 | ‘ We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth , and the great river shrinks into insignificance as it dashes its angry waves against the walls and cliffs that rise to the world above ; the waves are but puny ripples , and we but pygmies , running up and down the sands or lost among the boulders . |
| 23 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 24 | Few rivers can compare in scenic beauty with the Tamar as it winds its magic course between Cornwall and England . |
| 25 | Now , at the age of fifty-odd , the name was pathetically incongruous , calling up as it did someone fresh , compact and sparkling , with an air of crisp , but old-world domesticity . |
| 26 | They 're usually happy to help out , as it gives them extra pocket money . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's good to get new blood as it gives us more spark . ’ |
| 28 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 29 | The effect of the Polish Corridor was to send the East Prussian economy into an abrupt and dizzying nosedive as it lost its traditional markets for beef , grain , timber , fur , sugar-beet and alcohol . |
| 30 | Based on G. E. Stahl 's vigorous advocacy of a rational-utilitarian approach , an approach extolling the virtues of investigation and application , chemistry in Germany received particular favour as it lost its alchemical and other links . |