Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |
| 2 | Meh'Lindi reached into the trunk and lifted out a small tentacle , which squirmed as it left the stasis-field . |
| 3 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 4 | A keen breeze had sprung up and they watched as it chased fallen leaves along the pavement , blowing them into little heaps against the red brick wall . |
| 5 | She had believed him even now , even after what had happened and was happening , when he had said that his love for her remained as it had ever been , something eternal . |
| 6 | It creaked as it swung open . |
| 7 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 8 | There was a very light cross wind from the right which caused a swing in that direction , and as the Nimbus has only a tail-skid , it swung as it started its take-off run . |
| 9 | Enough of the eye came free to please Magee , though , and he watched as it dangled on the optic nerve . |
| 10 | The bird 's darting eye sought his frantically before it glazed ; he thought as it twitched about on the hard dry clods that he might break its neck to bring its death throes to an end . |
| 11 | It spun as it went , and at once the spinning of earth and sky seemed to centre on it , as if on a vortex . |
| 12 | It braked as it drew abreast . |
| 13 | It crackled as it moved . |
| 14 | Andrew Ferguson , 25 , of Pelham Street , Hartlepool , was fined £100 and ordered to pay compensation of £117 to the woman driver of a car which he kicked as it slowed down at a road junction . |
| 15 | It melted as it fell , but not as fast as it fell . |
| 16 | It grew and grew , but still kept to its tunnels , some of which it enlarged as it grew . |
| 17 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |
| 18 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 19 | Nothing remained as it had been , except for some pictures aslant on the wall . |
| 20 | The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me . |