Example sentences of "[adv prt] as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It jolted up the lane , slowed down as it came out into the open area in front of the quarry gates , and stopped . |
| 2 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 3 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |
| 4 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
| 5 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 6 | After the Baltic Exchange explosion , the Government agreed to move in as it had done before in Northern Ireland , to act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ , and the necessary legislation is in the Reinsurance ( Acts of Terrorism ) Bill published on 5 May this year . |
| 7 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The row blew over as it did for Kurt Weinburg , who was taken out by an older friend for a night on the town . |
| 10 | Successfully , for the whirlybird changed direction , heading straight for them , and Travis backed off , returning to the hut in time to shield her from the cloud of sand the machine whipped up as it landed . |
| 11 | He pushed it through the letter box and saw it flame up as it went through . |
| 12 | She saw that Talvi 's frizzled up as it met Rosa 's , like a brand which is doused , and she also saw that Rosa did not notice , but went on as if a bubbling sulphurous spring rose inside her . |
| 13 | The light speeded up as it got closer to you , but took ages to do the first part of the journey . |
| 14 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 15 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 16 | On 4 March the Belgian ship La Coubre — carrying weapons purchased by the Castro regime — was blown up as it entered Havana Bay by a bomb allegedly planted by the CIA . |
| 17 | Now , at the age of fifty-odd , the name was pathetically incongruous , calling up as it did someone fresh , compact and sparkling , with an air of crisp , but old-world domesticity . |
| 18 | The plane touched down , bounced up again , slewed sideways and skidded along the runway , breaking up as it did so ; the port wing broke off and the rest of the plane turned over on top of it . |
| 19 | From what she 'd gleaned from Janine he came and went like a bloody ghost , flitting in and out as it suited him . |
| 20 | Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way . |
| 21 | It was all neatly laid out as it had been the day before . |
| 22 | By this route , indirect and long drawn out as it had been , the long history of capital punishment for murder came to a conclusion . |
| 23 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 24 | At Bury , for instance , the abbey owned the whole site and could lay it out as it pleased . |
| 25 | The track wound past one last stand of trees , then petered out as it reached a wide , open space at the top of the hill . |
| 26 | A curlew called out as it rose above the waters , then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes . |
| 27 | It 's a great feeling when you try something and it works out as it did in Cardiff back in 1982 when we beat Wales 34–18 and ended their 14-year record of home invincibility . |
| 28 | My family were n't wealthy , could n't have afforded to send me away till it was over , could n't have kept it secret , so perhaps it 's just as well it turned out as it did . |
| 29 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 30 | He glanced round again , but the Thing , the Beast , the Monster , or whatever it was , was hidden from his sight by the smoke it shot out as it galloped forward . |