Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he saw El-ahrairah 's bottom sticking out of the hole and the sand flying out in showers as the digging went on . |
| 2 | As the day went on , some became impatient . |
| 3 | This became slower and slower as the day went on , and although Richards reached his hundred after tea he then scored only three in an hour . |
| 4 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 5 | But as the course went on , I realised I 'd backed off some decisions , and shut myself of from what my superiors were saying . |
| 6 | He did not make the most auspicious of starts to the season , but , as the year went on , that majestic swing — the envy of almost everyone in golf — was as regal as ever . |
| 7 | As the prayer went on he showed he had already mastered the priestly mumble . |
| 8 | As the half went on , Leeds really had the better of things , in terms of possesion , going forward , corners , and shots on goal . |
| 9 | It was the thigh which hurt but as the night went on , the ankle got worse . ’ |
| 10 | As the trip went on he began to feel unwell , and when he left he returned to Kingston , rather than Trinidad , as he knew the hospital staff there . |
| 11 | As the dagger went in , the bush turned grey and all its thorns went pale and soft . |
| 12 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 13 | A puff of ancient dust came out as the slug went in . |
| 14 | The flood was up to the top of the stove already , and as the gas went out the saucepan went afloat and he was scalded by a stream of boiling water that mixed with the cold . |
| 15 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 16 | I was shown to my room , which had a view of the back garden and the Noones ' paddock , where three sheep were grazing as the sun went down . |
| 17 | It was early evening and Kee was giving the chickens some food as the sun went down . |
| 18 | The villa looked welcoming , with its wooden seats and bright red geraniums , the lawns beyond streaked with the long shadows of the cypresses and casuarinas as the sun went down . |
| 19 | His long-sighted eyes reflected gold back to the sunset , and the brightness did not fade as the sun went down . |
| 20 | It seems likely that a forty-foot width was regarded as the minimum for an unsurfaced road , allowing for detours as the winter went on , but when scientific roadmaking began these great widths were no longer necessary . |
| 21 | As the century went on , women poets exercised much greater influence on the literary scene . |
| 22 | As the century went on , the swelling ranks of new elements began to exceed the bounds of chemical decorum . |
| 23 | The divergence was sharpened by the application of a theoretical distinction , the fruit of Augustinian theology , amplified as the century went on by canon and Roman law reference ; princes pronounced their campaigns just wars ( fought against aggressors with the aim of re-establishing peace ) or public wars ( declared by a competent authority in the public interest ) , while they condemned the wars of lesser men as infractions of the peace . |
| 24 | In France the more well-to-do cultivators ( those who paid 50 livres or more in taille ) were exempt from militia service , as were the servants of nobles or clerics , though exemptions of this kind were increasingly cut down as the century went on . |
| 25 | It even grew as the century went on . |
| 26 | But this sort of arrangement too became rarer as the century went on . |
| 27 | But the wave of publications of this kind which began in the 1850s could only gather strength as the century went on and public interest in foreign policy questions grew . |
| 28 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 29 | AS the talking went on in America the Bosnian Serbs appeared to have gained a firmer hold on their territorial war gains today . |
| 30 | He smiled as the life went out in him , looking up at the already transparent Monster . |