Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian opposition to the concession even as it stood was defused by presenting the Persian text to the Russian delegation when the Russian 's translator was known to be out of town . |
| 2 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 3 | I was n't going that far today , but I could hear the bulldozer they used sometimes to spread the garbage around as it revved and pushed . |
| 4 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
| 5 | And she typed the dream exactly as it had come to her . |
| 6 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 7 | Quiss waited for the scullion to draw breath , and looked round the kitchens again as it did so . |
| 8 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 9 | Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out . |
| 10 | The American researchers got around the problem by synchronising a pulsed laser and a pulsed gas jet so the pulse of laser light hit the gas just as it emerged from the jet into the vacuum chamber . |
| 11 | The driver took the road carefully as it dipped and turned , and forded rivers that shone like a newly tarred road and roared and pounded against the floor . |
| 12 | She tried to dismiss the thought even as it formed . |
| 13 | Masklin reached the door just as it opened . |
| 14 | Consequently the onus of distinguishing between the ‘ deserving ’ and the ‘ undeserving ’ poor tended to fall upon the officer dealing with the applicant in the fields just as it had fallen upon the relieving officer in the past . |
| 15 | I raised my lager , shaking the glass slightly as it came up . |
| 16 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 17 | Even so , I do not think they have mended the battery correctly as it said it was about to close down and stop when the battery meter said the battery was five-eights full … |
| 18 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |