Example sentences of "as it come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context above , Mr Lorry did not perceive the actual change itself as it came over the doctor . |
| 2 | As it came through Rose he encouraged it as much as he would have discouraged visits to any other neighbouring house . |
| 3 | All I can remember is an object hitting me in the head as it came through the window and glass shattering everywhere . |
| 4 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
| 5 | The lion turned , jaws slavering , eyes ablaze with fury and Corbett flinched as it came towards him , belly crouched , its tail twitching , its hind legs tense , then it sprang . |
| 6 | He was leaning down , his spear arm back , the gleaming bronze blade wavering as it came towards her . |
| 7 | Even if he now commanded her , as he was undressing , to open her eyes she would not see his powerful , barrel-chested body as it came at her . |
| 8 | The catch was usually gutted as soon as it came on board , and the gulls would go in a flock from boat to boat , cleaning up the discards . |
| 9 | ‘ Triumphant death ’ , as it came to be called by Evangelicals , was , first and foremost , a triumph with Christ over death ; in St Paul 's words , ‘ Death is swallowed up in victory . ’ |
| 10 | I asked her to meet the press off the back of the BAC One-Eleven as it came to a stop in front of us . |
| 11 | But we have to examine his other main passion : creative drama , as it came to be called round about this time . |
| 12 | And although Gibson 's initial concern was with verbal learning , subsequent experimental investigations of ‘ stimulus pre-differentiation ’ , as it came to be called , were conducted in a range of transfer paradigms . |
| 13 | The retrievability , or recuperability ( as it came to be known ) , of the nouveau roman depended to some degree on the reader being convinced of the necessity for modernity . |
| 14 | In fact , however , resistance to the new police continued to be expressed in the street violence and riots as ‘ the plague of blue locusts ’ spread throughout the country between 1829 and 1856 , and in particular as it came to the working class communities of the North ( Storch , 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Aerated water ’ , or soda water as it came to be called , was but one of Joseph Priestley 's many inventions . |
| 16 | It was decided to bring in Leeds-based Moss International to promote and find sponsors for the 1988 pie , ‘ pie ‘ 88 ’ as it came to be known . |
| 17 | Reading Native Races and their Rulers , one becomes aware of the extent to which Indirect Rule , as it came to be practised by Temple and presumably his fellow Residents , implied a special and refined kind of experience of power . |
| 18 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 19 | This route , the ‘ Sacred Way ’ as it came to be called , saved Verdun . |
| 20 | The police pursued this question of ‘ pop-gun or firearm ’ , as it came to be known , through a High Court which referred the matter back to the magistrate . |
| 21 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 22 | She reached down and , for a moment , Pete was half expecting some response ; a stag , perhaps , breaking the surface of the lake and climbing out to her , water streaming from its flanks as it came to her hand . |
| 23 | The Battle of the Belmont Stockade , or Sloop 's Bight , as it came to be known , was a defeat from which Liamuiga 's people would not recover : more than four hundred warriors were killed , among them Tiguary , their leader , shot through the bowels . |
| 24 | Despite their qualms of travelling on the Sabbath , they took the weather as it came to them and sailed back to Skye , landing in the harbour of Portree . |
| 25 | Soon as it came to the end of the quarter |
| 26 | Without it , ‘ Stop-Go ’ , as it came to be known in the 1960s , will be with us for ever . |
| 27 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 28 | The Iraqi " supergun " affair , as it came to be known in the UK media , first came to light on April 10 when UK customs officials in Teesside detained a consignment of steel cylinders bound for Iraq . |
| 29 | The " barbecoup " , as it came to be known from the social event which preceded it , resulted in a charge of treason against Tohian two months later . |
| 30 | The new Corpus Iuris Civilis , or Body of the Civil Law , as it came to be called by later commentators , consisted of four books . |