Example sentences of "[vb infin] as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 2 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 3 | And he heard the shadow speak as it moved , and tentatively , questioningly , he heard it speak his name … |
| 4 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 5 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 6 | She heard it crash to the bottom of the stairs , and felt the floor quiver as it gained on her . |
| 7 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 8 | Sometimes it went to sleep on the rag rug before the electric fire and snored quietly , or its paws would twitch as it chased rabbits in its sleep . |
| 9 | Instead of straightening out the bends on railways the train would tilt as it entered a curve . |
| 10 | The car did n't stop as it passed them . |
| 11 | The event would conclude as it began with a handshake . |
| 12 | Watching the stars dim as it turned first grey and then pink . |
| 13 | But that was n't enough , she reminded herself sharply , watching the male curlew as it waded out into the shallows , searching for food beneath the surface of the loch . |
| 14 | It will end as it began : it came from a woman ; and it will end in a woman ’ . |
| 15 | And thus it was agreed between them that all this compilation should stand as it had done . |
| 16 | He , and she , and even the androids , watched the chainsword twist and tumble as it fell . |
| 17 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
| 18 | I could swear I saw it sizzle as it ate through the varnish . |
| 19 | He coughed and spat some phlegm into the fire , hearing it sizzle as it hit the coals . |
| 20 | Increasing distance made it shrink as it rose , until at an unimaginable height it was not larger to her eye than a small bird . |
| 21 | Most of it would disperse as it found its way through the gravel , and it may not be necessary to form a soakaway at the end of the drain . |
| 22 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |
| 23 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |