Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
| 2 | Especially as it melts and forms a |
| 3 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 4 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 5 | I was telephoned at home as soon as it happened and when I arrived everyone was here , police , fire brigade , the gas board and the bomb squad . |
| 6 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 7 | The driver took the road carefully as it dipped and turned , and forded rivers that shone like a newly tarred road and roared and pounded against the floor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 10 | I was n't going that far today , but I could hear the bulldozer they used sometimes to spread the garbage around as it revved and pushed . |
| 11 | Her ordeal ended as strangely as it began and without any apparent reason . |
| 12 | He laid upon the table a drawstring purse of soft leather , that chinked faintly as it shifted and settled . |