Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your profile is coming up very clearly indeed on the oscillograph , and the profile provokes its own continuation , did you know that , the profile moulds you as it oscillates ? |
| 2 | Hoping this finds you as it leaves me we are none of us getting any younger Yours Sincerely Fred Bottomley . |
| 3 | The gleeful irony in the tale dominates it as it explores the character of a testy , vain man of sedentary habits changing into a comparatively humble , sensible and useful citizen . |
| 4 | ‘ The Gruncher likes his meat roasted , and the fire roasts it as it goes down . ’ |
| 5 | At times when I look at her it strikes me as it 's got something ; not beauty , but something that goes beyond it . |
| 6 | This could be I do n't think acid spends itself as it sits in a bottle does it ? |
| 7 | It parodies itself as it goes along , like a lawnmower picking up its own clippings . |
| 8 | She half catches it as it lands to one side of the jacuzzi . |