Example sentences of "as it [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 . |
| 2 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |
| 3 | The idea was born from the success of the Central Scotland Association , which generated increasing interest as it took on health boards over matters as diverse as single-sex lavatories in an Edinburgh hospital to provision of extra female doctors in the village of Auchterarder . |
| 4 | There was one last bit of excitement for ten-year-old Prince William on the flight home yesterday when he was allowed into the cockpit of the British Airways Airbus as it took off from Zurich . |
| 5 | This too had to be curbed on cost grounds , along with plans for two monolithic block-like structures , within the control room , which would darken to black as the ship landed , and fill with light as it took off . |
| 6 | In the latest incident , on July 10 , six policemen , part of an allegedly drunken patrol , were arrested and charged with the murder of 17 passengers after shooting down a civilian aircraft , which they claimed to have mistaken for a drug smuggling plane , as it took off from Bellavista , 800 km to the north-west of the capital Lima . |
| 7 | The only hitch in the operation was when the Royal Navy fired on the flyingboat as it took off from Bordeaux with the Polish General and his staff aboard . |
| 8 | As it says up here , press F one for help . |
| 9 | They were soft scratchings or shufflings , like the sounds made by an animal as it sniffed about in search of food . |
| 10 | She turned the handle of the spit when the Algerian gigots were roasted , larded with garlic and anchovies , in a kind of oval cage of iron slats in front of a hot fire of vine-stumps inside the huge hearth ; she sat on a bench inside the cheminée , turning the ratchet as it wound down , basting the lamb with oil and its own juices from a diabolical long spoon . |
| 11 | I play each whirr the dial made as it wound back , I clunk the recorder switches , I fidget with the stopwatch , and it gives him a pain between the eyes . |
| 12 | Our Vauxhall suffered from an annoying fifth gear whine on a trailing throttle but the engine 's hard-edged yet effortless snarl as it wound out to the 6600rpm cut-out is a far more satisfying sound than the Chrysler four . |
| 13 | As it flies along , the enhanced shimmer of water helps it to find new pools . |
| 14 | then , as it flies about , everyone will hear |
| 15 | As it clicked on she gave a small grunt but did n't move . |
| 16 | The snapping jaws missed , but he felt its far as it swung around and scampered away . |
| 17 | At six-thirty Kegan passed her taxi as it swung out across the courtyard . |
| 18 | She has just managed to scuttle out of its way as it slammed down next to her , but the tip of one of her legs had been trapped and she had been forced to sever it and leave it behind . |
| 19 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 20 | Be ready to open the airbrakes fully as it touches down to stop any bouncing or a gust lifting the glider into the air again . |
| 21 | Windsor , 49 , of Mid Glamorgan , was trapped inside the jeep as it toppled over and kept on rolling . |
| 22 | After the cover had popped off on 31 January , the infrared detectors recorded their first observation : a fluctuating signal due to the receding cover as it spiralled out of the telescope 's view . |
| 23 | There must have been some error in the Conservative Central Office word processor as it churned out yet another brief for the hon. Gentleman to repeat . |
| 24 | As it fluttered down again he said , ‘ There ! |
| 25 | ok , this poem 's called erm A Pause In A Moment Worn out days dressed in damp wheat , heavy coat pulling at tired shoulders , memory pushed back , brought forward in the click of a stick , pause in a moment , sunset reflected in eyes offering the warmth of recognition , so that poem started with the overcoat and that was the mood as I say , that was the mood of rejection erm and there was something about the way the old girl was looking at the women on the bridge , almost as if there was this recognition and , as it brought back memories that perhaps went or as black as the overcoat , erm the next er painting which I 'm going to read to you about is erm have you |
| 26 | As it goes up , it will be slowed down by the effect of gravity . |
| 27 | up like that and as it goes up it gets thinner |
| 28 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |
| 29 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 30 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |