Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead the Kette , led by the intrepid Müncheberg , dived after the Sunderland strafing it as it taxied to its moorings , and sinking it . |
| 2 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
| 3 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 4 | It seems to be one of the valves sticking in its guide and the piston just tapping it as it reaches the top of its stroke . |
| 5 | This aside , the Tropical Swimming Paradise is an excellent place , forcing you as it does , to revert to the age of ten and act accordingly . |
| 6 | Raise the tank temperature to 70°F. before adding it as it works better at higher temperatures . |
| 7 | Adam went back to his private world as the plane bucked across the sky , the unseen hands of the veering winds twisting and turning it as it flew towards Hanover . |
| 8 | The growth of Sunk Island is intimately linked with the Gylby family who , for almost 200 years leased it from the Crown , embanking it as it increased in size . |
| 9 | When knitting your samples did you notice that although the back bed was making the pattern , the design actually shows on the work facing you as it comes down between the beds ? |
| 10 | We suggested in the last chapter that in some situations you might think about producing a lecture on video instead of recording it as it happens . |
| 11 | no he was right that 's what I say you thinking about that thing , this is n't just doing it as it said , you ponder |
| 12 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 13 | She explains that Thru is ‘ a text that is really constructing itself and then destroying itself as it goes along … whenever I slide into a realistic scene … something happens later to destroy it , to show that these are just words on a page ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 14 | But , as she all at once realised that he thought , actually thought , that she had been pumping his secretary about him , so a tide of pink warmed her cheeks , and , ‘ Nothing ! ’ she exclaimed hotly , more startlement hitting her as it dawned on her that this then was the reason for his fury when he 'd seen them together . |
| 15 | Until this exchange the violent turn in Chant 's eye had never unsettled Estabrook , but it did now , preventing him as it did from meeting the other man 's gaze directly . |