Example sentences of "as it [verb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it lowered its wings in threat posture , I took a last few shots before backing away , mindful of Valdemar 's account of the owl which left long , bloody furrows up the back of a photographer who pushed his luck too far ! |
| 2 | The author is numbingly good on the effects of Arctic weather : ‘ as it left his lips , his breath crystallized , glittered and snowed . ’ |
| 3 | His mouth was hot as it explored her lips , his teeth nipping at her lower lip , sending exquisite frissons along her nerves until she let out a small gasp . |
| 4 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
| 5 | It is much more likely that the pharmaceutical industry will support such analysis as it perceives its interests as being threatened ( Drummond , 1989/90 ) . |
| 6 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 7 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 8 | Reaching these peoples , of course , first required running the gauntlet of a bureaucracy which treats ethnographic film-makers with the same distrust as it does their subjects . |
| 9 | The RIBA is in good company as it finalises its plans for obligatory CPD . |
| 10 | A day of prayer is important as it changes our pattern of prayer and as it changes our concerns week by week and year by year . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 12 | It is vital to the understanding of company needs that those engineers responsible for design , development and manufacture make direct contact with the world of the user and the competitor in sufficient depth to have valid views on the market as it affects their tasks . |
| 13 | Both , when smiling , underwent a total transformation that illuminated an unsuspected streak of gaiety in their characters as successfully as it illuminated their eyes . |
| 14 | The humans doubled up coughing as it invaded their lungs . |
| 15 | A long tongue came out of the lamb 's mouth as it licked its lips . |