Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] as the " in BNC.

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1 But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years .
2 She looked up and waved as the Golf drove past and when Melissa had put it away and locked the garage door , she rammed her fork into the ground and strolled over for a chat .
3 I watched as he sat next to him , and whispered something into his ear , the small man cringed slightly and looked as the middle aged woman had done at the tattered ‘ Summer Sun ’ adverts .
4 The second half of the project is concerned really with how on earth we get such program to work , such programs are very complicated , they interact in various odd ways , and getting the bugs out , getting the problems out or debugging as the jargon has it , is a really serious problem and we hope to make some advance on the problem of erm developing programs for such distributed multi-processor systems .
5 Any features of a social situation which we pick out and identify as the terms of a contradiction may already be the result of a collection of further factors , some more important than others .
6 A spokesman for the new organization declared that traditional whale-hunting countries could no longer stand by and watch as the system for international management of whale stocks crumbled under the pressure of environmental extremists .
7 He lay there and listened as the voice whispered on .
8 And she had dragged herself to her feet again and watched as the man called Duvall had sadistically begun to kill the boy who had protected her .
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