Example sentences of "as it [verb] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as it go when you push down it locks it 's fine . |
| 2 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 3 | Complete the following : ‘ a ? \ @*; £ ! % beats as it sweeps as it cleans ’ ; ‘ a \ @*?; & a day helps you work rest and play ’ . |
| 4 | In extremely dry periods , the lungfish of Africa just bury themselves in the mud at the bottom of their temporary ponds , and wait for as long as it takes until it rains again . |
| 5 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
| 6 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 7 | So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system . |
| 8 | This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament . |
| 9 | Baited hook sinks , stick-float rises , settles down as it travels while you dress the line . |
| 10 | This repeated question is very successful in reducing others to furious but impotent silence , but there is very little to be learnt from it as it stands until we know what lies behind it . |
| 11 | Erm , I think probably I would support the recommendation as it stands because I do think that we need to have a trial to see if the end performance , and I very very much support the idea of the end performance , er in district . |
| 12 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 13 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 14 | But as it faded when they stopped , she wanted to repeat their coupling again , and drown again in the sweet rush of forgetfulness , until the time when she would bring it all to an end , or so she promised herself she would . |
| 15 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |