Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Forward Trust Belfast League Senior quartet of League champion Derek Weir , Wai Sun Chan , Willie Cherry and Liz Cheevers has a winning look about it as it faces the Dublin and District League while the Junior quartet of John Fall , Harry Finlay , Andrew Gibson and Sharon Ferguson , drawn from division two , hope to maintain their winning run against Dublin . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ Frau Nordern sat bolt upright and gave Marx her commanding glare which , however , did not have quite the same effect on him as it had done on the Duty Officer . |
| 3 | So I would prefer to let you be the judge of it as it stands today . |
| 4 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 5 | Other forms of seduction were also at work on him as it happens , and on I October of the year of his arrival in the village he married Edith Mason , youngest daughter of Henry Rice Mason of Godmanchester , Hunts. , a cabinet-maker . |
| 6 | I picked a fish-louse from it as it lay on the unhooking mat , dabbed a bit of waterproof ointment on a small wound on its flank , then slipped it back into the water . |
| 7 | " And how often did you get good roast beef like this down at Sir Gregory 's , Miss Jennifer ? " he asked , helping himself to a generous dollop of honey and making patterns with it as it streamed down onto the slab of red meat on his plate . |
| 8 | The moaning combine in the field , the tractor and trailer with grain trickling from the back of it as it rumbled off to the corn drier , the waving haze of barley still to be cut , these things all fell into shade as the sun clouded over . |
| 9 | CD is comparing himself as narrator to someone following a reel which unwinds the thread of the story from itself as it rolls along in front of him . |
| 10 | I am working on a replacement for him as it does not look as though he will be available until June . ’ |
| 11 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 12 | In my case it 's every morning , though I do in a sense like it as it heralds the beginning of another crap day at school . |
| 13 | Press reporting focused as much on the reports about other women who had had sex with him as it did on the events to which he pleaded guilty . |
| 14 | This is a particular risk also with stakes — when wind blow rocks the plant or stake , there is a likelihood of the stem or stake opening a funnel-shaped hole around itself as it rocks and compresses the soil . |
| 15 | The worst thing about it as it stands , in the exercise , is it actually implies that the more food hygiene education goes on , the more food poisoning |
| 16 | 2 , and we shall merely summarize the most important physical aspect of it as it affects relaxation phenomena , namely the time-temperature superposition principle and its relation to free volume ( the so-called WLF relation ) . |
| 17 | Many of the small boats which usually travelled its waters were moored for the night and The Sandhopper passed a number of them as it made its way up river . |
| 18 | I 've only read Wuthering Heights of theirs as it happens , and I was n't too keen on parts of that . |
| 19 | Begin by stitching the longer length on the left hand side , bringing it under Teddy 's chin and tucking the shorter length under it as it crosses his shoulder . |
| 20 | Now if you sort of turn that round there 's a lot in it as it applies to Christians . |
| 21 | Maeve Binchy 's Circle of Friends ( RC84 ; 3 hours approx ) , delightfully read by her actress cousin Kate Binchy , has an earthier scent to it as it follows the fortunes of three young Irish girls and their attendant young men through their first year as students at University College , Dublin . |