Example sentences of "[vb past] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |
| 2 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 3 | He tried a grin , but winced as it hurt him . |
| 4 | In the country 's fifth air disaster in four months , the China Southern Airlines plane crashed as it approached to land at the city of Guilin . |
| 5 | At Manchester Airport on 25 August 1985 , a British Airtours charter jet crashed as it prepared for take-off . |
| 6 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 7 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 8 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 9 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 10 | and trembled as it fed — |
| 11 | Göring 's popularity in particular suffered as it became evident that , whatever successes German troops were having in distant parts , as head of the Luftwaffe , he was unable to guarantee the protection of the homeland . |
| 12 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 13 | Meh'Lindi reached into the trunk and lifted out a small tentacle , which squirmed as it left the stasis-field . |
| 14 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's leading you too , ’ Maggie reminded him quietly and his hand came as it often did to tilt her chin imperiously . |
| 16 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 17 | It is certain the board would prefer to see Mr Weir re-elected as it tries to keep a united front over the next few months when it has to produce new proposals for its future which are acceptable to the Scottish Office and the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 18 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 19 | The Sun Goeth Down , Mary 's great aria , never felt comfortable , hindered as it was by a disappointing violin solo from Andrew Martin , substituting after the interval for an indisposed Edwin Paling . |
| 20 | On Feb. 13 Police Minister Ronni Milo said that the Shin Bet secret service " acted as it would have to act and there was no place for all the complaints and accusations " . |
| 21 | The reasons why the Eisenhower administration acted as it did in 1956 remain potent , especially when examined without the advantages of hindsight . |
| 22 | Somewhere out of sight , cicadas filled the air with their high-pitched whirring and , in the distance , a woodpecker shrieked as it swooped from tree to tree in a flash of yellow , green and red . |
| 23 | Her dress shrieked as it caught on the comer of the table and tore . |
| 24 | Quite why ‘ Olliemania ’ happened as it did , and with such intensity , confounded almost everyone . |
| 25 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 26 | And today it 's as hard to believe it happened as it was thirty years ago . |
| 27 | Moreover , credit cost as a factor in buying choice — dwarfed as it is by convenience — is in practice most likely to focus on the amount of each instalment payment . |
| 28 | Porn has never been so loved or so hated as it is now . |
| 29 | Ronni sighed as it embraced her . |
| 30 | Gloucester 's first match was home to the Wasps.It finished as it started , all square . |