Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Residents in nearby villages had watched as it plummeted to the ground , frighteningly near their homes . |
| 2 | Every bloody boat had waved as it crossed the bar . |
| 3 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 4 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 5 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 6 | Faldo , who had holed a motorway of putts in the final round , holed yet another on that green , up went his arms in a triumphant ‘ V ’ and an Augustan decade had ended as it had begun , with a European as Master . |