Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] as it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 2 | Bishop Farquhar said that it was a matter of history which part of that circle happened to be passing by as it cut through the life of the Edwards family . |
| 3 | That English tradition of the amateur is of course a long one , and by no means ignoble , reaching back as it does through John Morley to Walter Bagehot , to Burke , to Addison , and so all the way to Philip Sidney and the Renaissance all-round man . |
| 4 | A horse skidded on ice , whinnying loudly as it fell to its side . |
| 5 | This book has a symbiotic relationship with Professor Stone 's earlier volume , The Family , Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 , drawing heavily as it does on the idea of the emergence of affective individualism in family relationships and its link to the rise in marital unhappiness during both the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries . |
| 6 | He sat and watched the quill being borne along by the current and then leaning over as it tugged at the end of the swim . |
| 7 | The interpreted section shows a southeasterly-dipping fault zone 3 km deep between Chippenham and Melksham , flattening slightly as it passes below Devizes at a depth of about 7 km . |
| 8 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |