Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they do it all at once , or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge ? |
| 2 | But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ? |
| 3 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 4 | His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball . |
| 5 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
| 6 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
| 7 | I 'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut , someone knocked . |
| 8 | Three DFC 's and one DSO have been won in Sugar , and just as it began its career with a daylight attack , it finished with another . |
| 9 | And just as it has been designed to satisfy their requirements ( not always necessarily with equal success ) , they come to find themselves serving its interests . |
| 10 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 11 | Halfway through the final allegro the world came into existence again , as quietly and effortlessly as it had gone . |
| 12 | She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home . |
| 13 | From what she 'd gleaned from Janine he came and went like a bloody ghost , flitting in and out as it suited him . |
| 14 | It will be ideal if you can park the car in such a way that the dog can move in and out as it wants , with the door left open , although clearly this will not be possible unless you have a driveway with a gate at the end . |
| 15 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 16 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 17 | But the anointing , which ye had received of him , abideth in you , and ye need not have any man teach you but as the same anointed teachers you all things , and is truth and is no lie and even as it have taught you , ye shall abide in him . |
| 18 | He sat on the cutting machine and and then as it come on to the Ah but what do you call the long thing ? |
| 19 | Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep . |
| 20 | Rousettus clicks its tongue loudly and rhythmically as it flies , and navigates by measuring the time interval between each click and its echo . |
| 21 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 22 | He screamed again and again as it came closer , certain that it had been sent to judge him . |
| 23 | The crush bolt made a dragging , trailing sound across the floor , once to open and again as it closed . |
| 24 | I know I should n't have said it but soon as it come out me mouth |
| 25 | After rehearsals , Sir calls us together And each group performs their play , But just as it comes to our turn The bell goes for the end of the day . |
| 26 | The expected train eventually arrived , but just as it approached , one channel of the recorder inexplicably failed , ruining the recording . |
| 27 | The Guinness takeover of Distillers is studied , not just as an example of a keenly contested takeover , but also as it demonstrated what many saw as the unacceptable sides of takeover activity and the City of London . |
| 28 | With a little more attention to the parser it could have been a Sizzler , but even as it stands it 's well worth your dosh so get out there and part with it at once ! |