Example sentences of "of a [noun] as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 2 | The Manport reached my ship 's airlock and clamped on , with puffs of a vapour as it formed its insta-seal around the join . |
| 3 | A man has been killed after riding on the boot of a car as it drove across a seaside caravan site . |
| 4 | The two girls , travelling together in the back of a car as it passed close by the explosion in St Mary Axe on Friday night , are being treated for facial and eye injuries in neighbouring beds at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 5 | One of the most dangerous stunts Crawford did in the new series was to hang on to the back of a car as it dangled over sea and rocks two hundred feet below . |
| 6 | 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 . |