Example sentences of "[adv prt] as it [verb] " 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 | If you send a compressed ZIP file down the wire , V42bis will actually slow things down as it struggles to compress the incompressible |
| 5 | Baited hook sinks , stick-float rises , settles down as it travels while you dress the line . |
| 6 | This enables the bat to cool down as it flies , so if pterosaurs needed to cool down they must have worked their wings as they flew , and probably were endothermic . |
| 7 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
| 8 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
| 9 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 10 | Pulling power may be slightly down as it Deems to fall off quickly against head winds or uphill gradients , when running constant changing up and down with overdrive even on the level . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is largely eliminated with reverse-pulley car launching and winching , where the parachute is pulled in as it drops . |
| 14 | When this happens , one can see clearly displayed just the convulsions and contortions the lava goes through as it flows : the bands are tightly folded in tortuous patterns . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The row blew over as it did for Kurt Weinburg , who was taken out by an older friend for a night on the town . |
| 17 | NOTES Hits any models run over as it moves |
| 18 | But there will always be a hard core , roaring down a bottomless lane in an A70 pick-up with no piston rings and ninety degrees of play in the steering , white cricket cap pulled down over watering eyes , sheepdog barking its head off as it rushes to and fro in the cargo department . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He pushed it through the letter box and saw it flame up as it went through . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Crying is more usual in the evenings and the baby may draw its legs up as it cries and become very red in the face . |
| 23 | The light speeded up as it got closer to you , but took ages to do the first part of the journey . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | VauDe Space takes less than five minutes to put up as it erects all in one |
| 28 | The research will be written up as it proceeds , and will be published in 1986 . |
| 29 | But if we abandon UP as it stands , we have no means of deriving MP . |
| 30 | 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 . |