Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as it " in BNC.

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1 She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down .
2 Rose left it on the coffee table by her husband 's chair , and when he had had his usual mixed fry-up and was preparing to have his snooze , his eye caught it as it lay there .
3 Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished .
4 Lifting our skirts higher and higher to avoid the water we carefully dropped them as it became shallow again .
5 The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ .
6 His hand scalded her as it moved down her body , gliding silkily over the depression of her waist , across the flat planes of her quivering stomach , and back again to the graceful sweep of her hip .
7 Unlike his mother and Rose-Ann he did n't object to burnt toast , so he buttered it as it was , not pausing to toast the other side of it .
8 He imagined it as it would be , centred in red and gold on a black flag , high on a standard , waving in the wind over the stadiums where they would hold their rallies , a symbol of a proud and new Germany , the Fatherland in its true glory .
9 A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away .
10 The spring rain soaked him but it was warm and he licked it as it trickled down his lip .
11 Despite Arnold Palmer 's memorable 1962 — when once again the golden hat-trick eluded him as it had in 1960 , with Open Championship and US Masters success , and only losing the US Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus — he had a quiet Open in 1963 .
12 She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly .
13 This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy .
14 The cold water shocked him as it tore at his bare neck His fear turned to blind rage .
15 I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . .
16 Had the vibrations of Kershaw reached it as it lay slumbering in the earth ?
17 Marcus , limply , but for a perfectly decent period , took it as it was offered , and then moved on to lay a cold cheek against his mother 's .
18 She did n't hear the car coming up the lane behind her , barely even registered it as it passed ; it was only when a car door was violently slammed that she looked up , and froze .
19 They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know .
20 When she died Eva bought it as it was , furniture included .
21 In Bartlett v. Sydney Marcus ( 1965 C.A. ) the seller , a car dealer , told the buyer that the car had a defective clutch and that if he bought it as it was he could have it for £550 but that if the seller were to repair it first , the price would be £575 .
22 He probably revised it as it went along and his recurring use of various kinds of lists as a basis for the structure of the work may well reflect Dr Battie 's influence .
23 Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel .
24 Educated at home , she in turn taught her younger brothers and sisters , which irked her as it prevented her from pursuing her own studies .
25 He left it as it was , and went silently out of the churchyard .
26 You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building .
27 Helen never intended her As It Was to be an accurate account of their young lives , and there are no letters because they met often .
28 Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all .
29 Finally , it ended it as it had began , with a problem of communication .
30 The stick he was holding caught fire and he held it as it flared up , watching the flames draw near his hand , feeling the heat on the skin , then the pain .
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