Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose left it on the coffee table by her husband 's chair , and when he had had his usual mixed fry-up and was preparing to have his snooze , his eye caught it as it lay there . |
| 2 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 3 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 4 | Lifting our skirts higher and higher to avoid the water we carefully dropped them as it became shallow again . |
| 5 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 6 | His hand scalded her as it moved down her body , gliding silkily over the depression of her waist , across the flat planes of her quivering stomach , and back again to the graceful sweep of her hip . |
| 7 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 8 | The spring rain soaked him but it was warm and he licked it as it trickled down his lip . |
| 9 | Despite Arnold Palmer 's memorable 1962 — when once again the golden hat-trick eluded him as it had in 1960 , with Open Championship and US Masters success , and only losing the US Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus — he had a quiet Open in 1963 . |
| 10 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |
| 11 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 12 | The cold water shocked him as it tore at his bare neck His fear turned to blind rage . |
| 13 | She was a girl who took everything as it came her way and never felt slighted or rebuffed . |
| 14 | Had the vibrations of Kershaw reached it as it lay slumbering in the earth ? |
| 15 | She did n't hear the car coming up the lane behind her , barely even registered it as it passed ; it was only when a car door was violently slammed that she looked up , and froze . |
| 16 | He probably revised it as it went along and his recurring use of various kinds of lists as a basis for the structure of the work may well reflect Dr Battie 's influence . |
| 17 | Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel . |
| 18 | Educated at home , she in turn taught her younger brothers and sisters , which irked her as it prevented her from pursuing her own studies . |
| 19 | Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all . |
| 20 | Finally , it ended it as it had began , with a problem of communication . |
| 21 | The stick he was holding caught fire and he held it as it flared up , watching the flames draw near his hand , feeling the heat on the skin , then the pain . |