Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were members to pass it as it stood , this would be an arrogant move indeed : they would be considering themselves to be more sensible than people outside . |
| 2 | Firstly the package did not have to sell itself as it does in self service shopping , since the salesman himself acted to promote the products . |
| 3 | Not that it would harm us to drink it as it comes . |
| 4 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 5 | He kicked it away from the bars , then continued to boot it as it shambled deeper into the hut . |
| 6 | After the war the industry was too depressed to re-equip itself as it had done in 1804 . |
| 7 | Young skin is less able naturally to protect itself as it contains less melanin and therefore has less tanning ability . |
| 8 | But that , in turn , owed as much to the readiness of the Spanish conservative classes to believe it as it did to Franco 's skill in propagating it . |
| 9 | Now joint tenants is a legal term sensible place to describe it as it 's come up which is what husband and wife often own property as . |
| 10 | Having gained weight so rapidly , the abandoned pup then begins to lose it as it uses its blubber to develop the organs of its body . |
| 11 | I 'm in a position to investigate it as it develops . |
| 12 | Sometimes , though , it 's easier to take it as it comes — you 'll never be short of a willing gull to use up your leavings in Hastings . |
| 13 | Diving at it and pecking it may just be enough to unsettle it as it makes the difficult final climb . |
| 14 | His appearance , that first term , failed to impress everyone as it failed to impress the Master of his college . |
| 15 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 16 | Very little to recommend it as it involves turning through 360° . |
| 17 | The passion to tell it as it strikes us , yet , if we are honest , in the knowledge that we are only passing through and it is easy to manipulate images having moved on . |