Example sentences of "and [adj] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its head twisted this way and that as it tried to reach my fingers with its chopping teeth . |
| 2 | She continued to lean against the gravestone , sick and shaking , her teeth chattering , her stomach as knotted and tormented as it had been in childbirth . |
| 3 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 4 | For some reason , a pulse is given as the wire enters and another as it leaves ! |
| 5 | The grass rolled in waves , glistening and gleaming as it undulated . |
| 6 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 7 | The campaign became increasingly bitter and rancorous as it progressed . |
| 8 | The types have also been used to describe processes such as denominationalisation , in which a sect becomes less inward-looking and world-rejecting as it accommodates to the rest of society . |
| 9 | The result would be a diagram which becomes ever more precise and explicit as it moves from left to right , with a long list of fairly narrowly defined functions on the right-hand side . |
| 10 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 11 | We 'll do those until it 's nice and soft as it said . |
| 12 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 13 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 14 | The second revised ending though gives Estella a complete character change and seems to leave everything a bit too perfect and predictable as it ends more like a ‘ Mills and Boon ’ love story with |
| 15 | It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings . |
| 16 | Her face looked calm and beautiful as it slept its enforced slumber , the lips slightly parted , the dark curls spilling over a pale cheek . |
| 17 | The French Government 's response , as swift and dramatic as it turned out to be highly risky , was to call its own referendum . |
| 18 | The path widened and flattened as it came out of the Grove and she caught Nick 's hand to make him run faster . |
| 19 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 20 | The flesh turns spongy and tender as it cooks ; tastes like a cross between a cucumber and courgette . |
| 21 | Barter is clearly inefficient and troublesome as it requires a ‘ double coincidence of wants ’ . |
| 22 | The fire was not lit and the room did n't seem as cheerful and welcoming as it had the night before ; they broke their fast quickly on warm oat cakes and mulled wine , saddled their horses and rode back along the track to the highway . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll know if you 've got it because it is very painful , your mouth fills with ulcers and the flesh between your teeth becomes puffy and ragged as it rots . |
| 24 | Even as she tried to evade him , he was drawing her closer , making the blood sing in her veins as he smiled down at her , the hypnotic blue eyes half shuttered but still as powerful , as he raised a firm hand to the back of her head , guiding her face towards his own , his mouth seeking the trembling softness of hers , hard and demanding as it reached its goal , yet instantly becoming as gentle and manipulative as it had been when he had coaxed the throbbing melody from the borrowed trumpet . |
| 25 | More weed and a seed quickly becomes established in cracks on the asphalt In future years even willow trees will be in a foothold to these doomed power stations stands firm and proud as it slips and silently into decay |
| 26 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 27 | Here , beyond the gardens of the lodge and the woods and ornamental ponds , the loch narrows and becomes a river again , bending and funnelling and quickening as it heads towards the rocks and falls and the shallow gorge beyond . |
| 28 | He dialled Jo 's number in Rome , and grew lonelier and sadder as it rang on and on , unanswered . |
| 29 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
| 30 | But still the fearsome swooshing whooshing whiffling snorting noise grew louder and louder as it came closer and closer . |