Example sentences of "as it came " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it came through Rose he encouraged it as much as he would have discouraged visits to any other neighbouring house . |
| 2 | A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon , urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went . |
| 3 | Brooks 's curling drive brought an equally adept save from Carter , while Coleman 's thumping shot skimmed over — after Blissett had quick-wittedly overrun the ball as it came over from Shearer in one of the home team 's brightest moves . |
| 4 | In the event , they went back to Scotland Yard so that McLeish could get to a phone and check with his secretary , and with Bruce Davidson , who was co-ordinating the evidence as it came in . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But we have to examine his other main passion : creative drama , as it came to be called round about this time . |
| 8 | Each minute , each second , had to be played as it came . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 14 | The wire surfaces cooled the burning gas as it came into contact with them to a temperature below the ignition point of the gas outside the cage . |
| 15 | ‘ Aerated water ’ , or soda water as it came to be called , was but one of Joseph Priestley 's many inventions . |
| 16 | As it came near he quickly lowered the camera and directed a wide-eyed stare , straight at the big cat . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Even though it was the only route for Polish-German transit between the towns of Graudenz and Dirschau — a distance of 120 kilometres — the Poles closed the bridge as soon as it came under their control . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But as it came closer there was no mistaking the great leafy bird which flew across the road and disappeared over the top of the hill . |
| 23 | Do Amaral said the control tower were unaware of the plane being in trouble as it came in to land . |
| 24 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 25 | Briar Cottage looked of a sudden smaller , Joan thought as it came into sight . |
| 26 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | More cheerfully he trotted after Lou , catching the tennis ball as it came bouncing towards him . |
| 29 | The reaction of friends and relations was generally quite favourable and , as it came my way , an interesting and unexpected fact started to emerge . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a blinding flash as it came down . |