Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
| 2 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 3 | It bounces alarmingly as it gathers speed . |
| 4 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 5 | As suddenly as it began , the rain ceased . |
| 6 | The rain stops as suddenly as it came . |
| 7 | I heard screams of anguish , then the attack faded away as suddenly as it came . |
| 8 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 9 | Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started . |
| 10 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 11 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
| 12 | It died as suddenly as it had risen . |
| 13 | When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon . |
| 14 | It fell silent as suddenly as it had begun . |
| 15 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
| 16 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 17 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 18 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 19 | The beating ceased , as suddenly as it had begun . |
| 20 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 21 | His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball . |
| 22 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 23 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 24 | Once Baldwin 's decision was made , the right-wing plot collapsed as suddenly as it had grown up and , as always after prolonged but successful mental strain , he felt free . |
| 25 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 26 | The question , coming suddenly as it did , caught Tam unguarded . |
| 27 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 28 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 29 | The coach drove back through Cardiff , and past the High School — which looked , and was , much as it had been . |
| 30 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |