Example sentences of "[art] [noun] as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if the income as it arose in each of the five years was paid out to Mr X that would have no tax consequences : he could not be assessed under TA 1988 , s739 as he is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The rebound fell to Williams whose effort scraped the upright as it went outside . |
| 3 | ‘ Good Joey , ’ he said to the parakeet as it chattered into wakefulness . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the couple in bed were so engrossed in each other that neither of them heard the fuse as it spluttered towards them . |
| 5 | He had initially been charged with assault and the rape indictment was added during the trial as it emerged that such a charge was appropriate . |
| 6 | Having delivered the presents , however , her next stop was the basement , which had been hastily and frugally fitted out to house the appeals office , with its six telephone lines and fifty cramped volunteers drafted in to handle the money as it flooded in . |
| 7 | Coolly , he thrust the point of his spear into the centre of the foaming maelstrom , and felt the resistance as it struck home . |
| 8 | The general secretary of the EPRLF , K. Padmanabha , was also reported to have left Sri Lanka , along with other key officials , and to have gone to India , where thousands of EPRLF supporters were seeking refuge in fear of persecution by the LTTE as it moved into areas vacated by Indian troops . |
| 9 | But the glory will not fade from the Christian as it did from Moses . |
| 10 | Suddenly Anne thought of the kitchen as it had been throughout her childhood , a warm , secure and loving haven . |
| 11 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 12 | He lay for a long time , listening to the storm as it blew itself out . |
| 13 | Braced against the storm as it howled , he promised himself something . |
| 14 | Its engine failed in the eye of the storm as it headed through the Bristol Channel on its way from Middlesbrough to Newport . |
| 15 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 16 | Adam was under one of the lamps as it burst to life . |
| 17 | Oh yes you are , he thought , tightening the tie on the robe as it threatened to slide undone . |
| 18 | The assassins rushed out of the tunnel , their feet ringing on the stones , emerging onto the promontory in time to catch sight of the punt as it rounded a pillar . |
| 19 | We had only brief glimpses of the parrot as it flew across gaps in the canopy , and with that I had to be content . |
| 20 | Barnett remembered the heat in the blood as it welled around the hilt of the knife and onto his hand . |
| 21 | He could feel the blood as it pounded there . |
| 22 | Perceiving the Army as a protective cover for Loyalism , Catholics attacked the march as it went past the Cloned and Ballymurphy areas . |
| 23 | He managed to turn inside his assailant and opened fire from 200 yards , seeing white vapour trail from the Messerschmitt as it pulled away . |
| 24 | The ‘ new technology ’ — a term used to describe the computerization of the printing industry using word processors and computer-designed pages as well as the direct input of copy by the journalist into the computer ( Fig. 4.4 ) — would gravely affect employment in the industry as it did away with compositors and printers . |
| 25 | Lord Justice Higgins ' widow , Bridget , daughters , Mary , Lucy and Cait , and sons John and Matthew , led the cortege as it left the church for burial at Milltown Cemetery in Magherafelt . |
| 26 | A black , beady eye caught the light as it moved on short , powerful legs and toes , and as it crossed the clearing it paused for one brief moment to utter a shrill and prolonged , ‘ Kee … wee … | . ’ |
| 27 | According to witnesses , Gyalpo was holding a Tibetan nationalist flag and marching in front of the demonstration as it progressed towards the Jokhang temple in central Lhasa . |
| 28 | Standing in the back of one of the pick-ups as it sped across the hard sand , with the dust spiralling out behind us across the vast plain , it seemed that a whole new world was opening up . |
| 29 | I could hear the crash of waves on the shingle , and the intermittent shriek of the wind as it tore through the gaps in the kail-yard wall . |
| 30 | It swung back and forth , creaking in the wind as it moved past the cliffs and over the sea . |