Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monarchy became itinerant as it had not been since the Middle Ages , but the reason for this was not administrative but political and diplomatic . |
| 2 | Out of curiosity , he caught one as it flew past his head , broke the wax seal , and unrolled the paper . |
| 3 | Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture , and it became clearer as it approached . |
| 4 | Erm , we carried on , er , it got better as it went on . |
| 5 | Hands up all those who 've received an indecipherable fax , where the print quality is appalling , where a staple has scratched the scanner , where the original document got stuck as it passed through the sending machine . |
| 6 | But the figure leapt through the air onto the next shelf and Endill watched helpless as it disappeared into the darkness . |
| 7 | The free-for-all began when the back door of a Wells Fargo van flew open as it hit a bump in the road in Queens , New York . |
| 8 | We watched fascinated as it parachuted down in slow descent , tail fanned , wings tilted upwards . |
| 9 | The cykesound became a speck on the road , and grew bigger as it approached . |
| 10 | At dawn one spring morning a heavily loaded freight train , headed by a pre-war 2 — 8 — 0 locomotive , was running out of steam owing to a badly clinkered fire-bed as it approached Brook End signal box . |
| 11 | The dinner became noisier as it progressed but , because most of the shouted conversation was in Yek , Rostov confined himself to his food . |
| 12 | Highly forgetful , he is said to have put on all six shirts his wife packed for his tour and removed each as it became too dirty to wear . |
| 13 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 14 | The petrol tank split open as it rolled and most of the gas spilled out over the hill . ’ |
| 15 | The sea sounded louder as it claimed the beaches . |
| 16 | ‘ Dum-dum ’ fear over shot cow TESTS are continuing on a bullet found in a cow shot dead as it grazed . |