Example sentences of "[art] [noun] as it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had initially been charged with assault and the rape indictment was added during the trial as it emerged that such a charge was appropriate . |
| 2 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 3 | They are , in fact , the beaches of ice-drained lakes left behind by successive falls in the glacier as it melted and was released from the valley at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 4 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 5 | A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon , urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went . |
| 6 | But he would then be treating the past as evidence of present attitudes and convictions , not as important for its own sake , and he would lose interest in the past as it aged and was therefore of less evidential value . |
| 7 | The major one is that the wing , had it been left there , would have snagged on the underside of the Kilcharran as it surfaced and tilted the fuselage , maybe to so acute an angle as to make access to this damned bomb difficult or impossible . ’ |
| 8 | The government of Bosnia-Hercegovina under President Alija Izetbegovic continued as the internationally recognized government of Bosnia-Hercegovina but had lost control of most of the territory of the state as it existed when it was recognized internationally in April 1992 [ see p. 38848 ] . |
| 9 | They all watched the door as it opened and Donald 's face poked round the edge , and then they all looked at each other and they all thought the same thought : Now ? |
| 10 | Aboard the plane as it climbed and headed out over the Gulf of Finland she sat in a daze . |
| 11 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |
| 12 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |