Example sentences of "[noun] as it came " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck two cars as it came to rest . |
| 2 | A couple of policemen caught the boat as it came in alongside and steadied it . |
| 3 | Bobo pursed her lips and began to pant and chomp her jaws in appreciation as it came within reach . |
| 4 | There was a little magnetic tug as it came off his wrist . |
| 5 | The crosses erected at stages on the route of St Louis 's body as it came from Tunis to Paris for burial at St Denis were ‘ freely imitated in the Eleanor crosses of England ’ . |
| 6 | Even if he now commanded her , as he was undressing , to open her eyes she would not see his powerful , barrel-chested body as it came at her . |
| 7 | ‘ Aerated water ’ , or soda water as it came to be called , was but one of Joseph Priestley 's many inventions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | More cheerfully he trotted after Lou , catching the tennis ball as it came bouncing towards him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were happy to carry on taking each day as it came . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All I can remember is an object hitting me in the head as it came through the window and glass shattering everywhere . |
| 14 | Do Amaral said the control tower were unaware of the plane being in trouble as it came in to land . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Er , I should know that , or certainly agree that all the staff in the Environment must have coped ade adequately well before under the preceding system where each officer , each department was was instructed to deal with the environment as it came along . |
| 18 | I ca n't remembered who said it a little earlier but they said that the er , conservatives er dealt with the environment as it came along , and it 's it 's been all too apparent that they kep dealt with it as it came along . |
| 19 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She reached down and , for a moment , Pete was half expecting some response ; a stag , perhaps , breaking the surface of the lake and climbing out to her , water streaming from its flanks as it came to her hand . |
| 22 | Out of the coal as it came by . |
| 23 | ‘ There was a blinding flash as it came down . |
| 24 | ‘ There was a blinding flash as it came down . |
| 25 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 26 | She stared down at the disgusting mass as it came away in her hand for a moment and then she marched after him with pursed lips and a determined gleam in her eyes . |
| 27 | In other words , they were not directly listening for the sound /t/ in the speech as it came in , but rather determining that a word contains a /t/ after actually identifying the word . |
| 28 | Despite their qualms of travelling on the Sabbath , they took the weather as it came to them and sailed back to Skye , landing in the harbour of Portree . |
| 29 | If some of the nine hundred got horses , they could ride north ahead of the foot and meet the fleet as it came into the Tay , in time to protect the main landings . ’ |