Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 2 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |
| 3 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 4 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 5 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |