Example sentences of "soon as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as it lurched backwards , he stood up , ran the length of the bus as fast as he could and jumped over the wall . |
| 2 | But he rejected it almost as soon as it crossed his mind . |
| 3 | It appears the US policy was to assist the coup if it appeared likely to succeed ; but to back away as soon as it seemed doomed to fail . |
| 4 | All around it the bloodstained undergrowth lay broken and flattened by its struggles , and as soon as it saw him , the animal lowered its needle-sharp horns that had grown in its prime to a length of nearly three feet . |
| 5 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 6 | He considered the Shah an autocrat , not a dictator ; a dictator would have crushed the clerical unrest as soon as it began to appear , and the Shah had not . |
| 7 | And they resented the cliche of representing the success of the band by a series of brief musical sequences alternating with shots of trains , because their clapping accompaniment was interrupted as soon as it began . |
| 8 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 9 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 10 | All six in-patient beds will be available in Darlington 's new leukaemia unit as soon as it opens , hospital officials confirmed this week . |
| 11 | At the start of the cross wind take-off apply full rudder in anticipation of the swing into wind , and then reduce it as soon as it becomes effective . |
| 12 | When you have given it , do all you can to collect it as soon as it becomes due . |
| 13 | As soon as a weakness or shortcoming in the system of regulating safety is positively identified the investigators need to inform the regulators where urgent action is necessary ; indeed , it is important that unhampered liaison channels allow the flow of all relevant factual information about an accident as soon as it becomes available . |
| 14 | As soon as it becomes clear that the new attacks would not achieve their objectives within a reasonable period , then we must abandon them and ‘ seek a decision elsewhere ’ said Falkenhayn half-heartedly , adding : |
| 15 | Now I say , that that is an intellectual exercise , as soon as it becomes an emotional exercise |
| 16 | And I go to bed as soon as it gets dark . |
| 17 | One of the typical patterns , when you go back to work or attend a course , is to opt out of this new situation as soon as it gets a little tough , especially if there are domestic problems such as children sick or on holiday . |
| 18 | As soon as it gets 36MHz SuperSparc chips from Texas Instruments Inc ( by the end of the first quarter , it hopes ) , Hamcom will offer the Hamstation-1030 — equivalent to Sun 's Sparc 10 Model 30 — at £9,960 . |
| 19 | As soon as it gets close , they do n't — they look round and ordinary . ’ |
| 20 | You 'll clam up or walk away as soon as it gets to be too personal . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ As soon as it gets light I think all the hunters we can spare should go out , ’ said Grimma . |
| 22 | No as soon as it gets anywhere past the top , you only have to have about a four inch dick . |
| 23 | He put out an arm and dropped it as soon as it touched her , as if its contact stung him . |
| 24 | All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Soon as it came to the end of the quarter |
| 28 | Walesa , who attended this session , said afterwards that in order to prove that the new constitution had not been tailor-made for him he would resign as soon as it came into force . |
| 29 | Gifford Tate started to use it as soon as it came out , he reckoned it brought him luck . |
| 30 | The Thatcher government as soon as it came into office met considerable opposition in Parliament , from public opinion , from local authorities and from various pressure groups , to ‘ cuts ’ . |