Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 2 | There are other signs that the club is stirring itself commercially as it responds to the needs of its growing membership . |
| 3 | So far , she had answered everything scrupulously as it came , but the volume threatened to defeat her . |
| 4 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 7 | It stirred the man in him even as it gored him . |
| 8 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it happened ’ ( Acts 11:4 ) . |
| 10 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 11 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 12 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |
| 13 | Just write it all as it happens . |
| 14 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |
| 15 | It can take just as much fortitude to go it alone as it does to keep up a public front . |
| 16 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 17 | If the sound is played at a different speed , only adjustment of the volume control is necessary to make it sound as it did before . |
| 18 | But only the occasional shafts of sunlight gave it away as it worked slowly downwards , making the most of its daily exercise . |
| 19 | At Bury , for instance , the abbey owned the whole site and could lay it out as it pleased . |
| 20 | But it can affect the way the rig interacts and I 'm pointing it out as it relates to all rack systems , not just those based upon a JMP-1 . |
| 21 | Right and it goes like these great funnels spread it Now as it goes down it gets caught down . |
| 22 | If you have failed to brief them properly then they have little option but to either put it on hold or send it back as it came out and let you sort it out . |
| 23 | Strictly speaking , this is not solely a funboard technique but I include it here as it has such close links with the waterstart . |
| 24 | It had left her a little awe-stricken and she made a move to look at it again as it lay on her dressing-table . |