Example sentences of "[pron] as it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards .
2 I 've only read Wuthering Heights of theirs as it happens , and I was n't too keen on parts of that .
3 Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities .
4 The other possible way of answering your question is to think in terms of having a large project in which you would write a whole series of poems that would add up into a book , which as it happens I have just done , since I have just published a book of poems which are all retellings of bible stories , and there the subjects quite clearly came from the outside , though I mean unless they latch onto something inside you they wo n't make poems .
5 Fig 78 It is dangerous to be positioned behind the board and rig , because the wave will throw them towards you as it passes .
6 It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly .
7 This aside , the Tropical Swimming Paradise is an excellent place , forcing you as it does , to revert to the age of ten and act accordingly .
8 You could feel the floor trembling beneath you as it turned on the power and climbed . ’
9 I hope it works as well for you as it has me .
10 When knitting your samples did you notice that although the back bed was making the pattern , the design actually shows on the work facing you as it comes down between the beds ?
11 So heavy it would crush you as it pushed from side to side .
12 Pet Plan has a policy called RIDER PLAN ( FREEFONE 0800 282250 ) which would be ideal for you as it aims at regular riders who do not own their own horse or pony .
13 Your profile is coming up very clearly indeed on the oscillograph , and the profile provokes its own continuation , did you know that , the profile moulds you as it oscillates ?
14 Hoping this finds you as it leaves me we are none of us getting any younger Yours Sincerely Fred Bottomley .
15 But I thought you were so experienced that it would n't have affected you as it did me . ’
16 After the war the industry was too depressed to re-equip itself as it had done in 1804 .
17 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 .
18 Firstly the package did not have to sell itself as it does in self service shopping , since the salesman himself acted to promote the products .
19 Abberley ( 1989 ) argues that the specific form of normality being advocated becomes disabling in itself as it inhibits expressions of difference .
20 In the context above , Mr Lorry did not perceive the actual change itself as it came over the doctor .
21 It parodies itself as it goes along , like a lawnmower picking up its own clippings .
22 " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes .
23 She explains that Thru is ‘ a text that is really constructing itself and then destroying itself as it goes along … whenever I slide into a realistic scene … something happens later to destroy it , to show that these are just words on a page ’ ( 4 ) .
24 This could be I do n't think acid spends itself as it sits in a bottle does it ?
25 The ‘ unprecedented advance of machine technique ’ ( in common with other developments in production ) seemed to be altering the nature of ‘ work ’ itself as it made more complex and numerous demands on labour .
26 Indeed , we could not be there , since we have neither access to the classrooms where ‘ disorder ’ rules , nor if we had would social life reconstitute itself as it existed before the camera , tape recorders and people accountable as social scientists were upon the scene .
27 But the former Monaghan manager remains convinced that there is little wrong with the game itself as it stands , providing the rules are enforced .
28 This allows the company to use its own assets as the security for credit but retain the ability to deal with those assets itself as it wishes until such time as the creditor takes steps to enforce his security .
29 What will the infinite wisdom of the universe do with itself as it rushes towards that point ?
30 Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it .
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