Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Five minutes — as long as it took to accept that it was a fact of life and then find my lawyer 's phone number . ' ’ |
| 2 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 3 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 4 | Authority had decreed when I must sleep and when I must not , just as it had decreed when and how much I should eat ; it was my business , in my bid for autonomy , to reverse the decisions of authority . |
| 5 | It felt heavy and lifeless , in much the same way as it had felt that day in Spain when he had gone off the road . |
| 6 | The centralizing and autocratic nature of papal monarchy as it had developed after the Gregorian Reform of the eleventh century was probably the principal underlying problem behind the sixteenth-century Reformation . |
| 7 | Calvinism as it had developed and hardened had tended to place a huge emphasis on man 's total depravity and sinfulness , to limit the forgiveness offered in Jesus Christ to the ‘ elect ’ , and to speak as if faith were a condition of forgiveness , our side of a bargain made with God . |
| 8 | He concluded that her refusal did not extend to the situation as it had developed and granted the declaration sought . |
| 9 | It was gone as soon as it had come and he re-established his public gaze . |
| 10 | The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane . |
| 11 | ‘ Thanks , Belinda , ’ he said solemnly , trying to eat the fluffly mass even as it began to darken and stick to his fingers . |
| 12 | The history of polarity reversals of the Earth 's magnetic field recorded in this newly generated crust as it cooled indicated that , once formed , it moved away from ridges towards oceanic trenches . |