Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 2 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 3 | Bishop Farquhar said that it was a matter of history which part of that circle happened to be passing by as it cut through the life of the Edwards family . |
| 4 | Now , at the age of fifty-odd , the name was pathetically incongruous , calling up as it did someone fresh , compact and sparkling , with an air of crisp , but old-world domesticity . |
| 5 | The plane touched down , bounced up again , slewed sideways and skidded along the runway , breaking up as it did so ; the port wing broke off and the rest of the plane turned over on top of it . |
| 6 | Yet the ‘ S ’ is more than capable of flying , kicking out as it does an impressive 145bhp . |
| 7 | One evening , as we stood talking by the shore , I saw a strange , beautifully shaped bird flying fast over the sea , rising in a long , slow arch , calling hauntingly as it flew . |
| 8 | He released a catch , springing open the bonnet , and twisted a metal cap , stepping back as it made a loud hissing sound . |
| 9 | The question , coming suddenly as it did , caught Tam unguarded . |
| 10 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 11 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 12 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That English tradition of the amateur is of course a long one , and by no means ignoble , reaching back as it does through John Morley to Walter Bagehot , to Burke , to Addison , and so all the way to Philip Sidney and the Renaissance all-round man . |
| 16 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 17 | It had no identifiable melody , it was just beautifully melodic , rising and falling gently as it carried him along . |
| 18 | A horse skidded on ice , whinnying loudly as it fell to its side . |
| 19 | The victim settles horizontally , floating downwind as it waddles side to side , then gently descends to the earth . |
| 20 | This book has a symbiotic relationship with Professor Stone 's earlier volume , The Family , Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 , drawing heavily as it does on the idea of the emergence of affective individualism in family relationships and its link to the rise in marital unhappiness during both the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries . |
| 21 | He sat and watched the quill being borne along by the current and then leaning over as it tugged at the end of the swim . |
| 22 | The interpreted section shows a southeasterly-dipping fault zone 3 km deep between Chippenham and Melksham , flattening slightly as it passes below Devizes at a depth of about 7 km . |
| 23 | Push slivers of Flora margarine under the skin so that the flesh is prevented from drying out as it cooks . |
| 24 | He fired , but at once saw that it was a Maryland , banking away as it dived vertically for the sea . |
| 25 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 26 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |