Example sentences of "as it rose " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Hollidaye 's voice was comforting as it rose and fell like the wind .
2 The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell .
3 The rumble that had thundered from the wheelbarrow on tarmac was now replaced by a creak as it rose , and a thump as it fell .
4 It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges .
5 His epithets include The One Who Dispels Darkness , a reference to his appearance as the light which preceded the sun as it rose .
6 In small firms doing sub-contract work for the large car assembly plants , where the level of unionisation was weak , and management hired and fired labour in line with demand as it rose and fell , the form of work organisation approximated more closely to that which Braverman describes .
7 In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption .
8 As it rose , the motors now screaming in protest , Ace could gradually see more of the opening from which the platform projected .
9 His voice cracked as it rose in pitch .
10 As it rose Edward said thoughtfully , ‘ One gets the impression that this sort of place must cost rather a lot of money . ’
11 Increasing distance made it shrink as it rose , until at an unimaginable height it was not larger to her eye than a small bird .
12 She put her glass down on a rock and walked into the waters of the lough , gasping as it rose up her thighs and touched her lower belly .
13 So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother .
14 A curlew called out as it rose above the waters , then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes .
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