Example sentences of "and it [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 2 | First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop . |
| 3 | The light has begun to go , and it fades as they die , and as GUIL speaks . ) |
| 4 | Wage evidence could also be noted , but it is even scarcer than price data , and it remains as yet uncertain whether any particular trend swill be discernable . |
| 5 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 6 | Hodge equalised Gannon 's second-minute goal in the eighth minute , and it looked as though the game was heading for a draw . |
| 7 | But then a lot of them fancied their chances that year — Peter Oosterhuis , Nick Faldo , and so on , and Bobby Clampett led for a while and it looked as though they might not be able to catch him . |
| 8 | Batty 's right ankle was still swollen yesterday and it looked as though he would need a miracle cure to make the second leg of the European Cup tie . |
| 9 | Dawn on Monday morning shone only a bleak grey light over Moscow and it looked as though the weathermen would be right in their prediction of rain by midday . |
| 10 | They continued riding through the afternoon , by which time the dull cloud above their heads had become unbroken , and it looked as though they were in for a wet night . |
| 11 | And it looked as though you 'd bought something rather than been to the pawnshop . |
| 12 | Alan Knight made a stunning reflex save from Phillips five minutes from time and it looked as though Boro were on the way out . |
| 13 | The following afternoon — i.e. the day the Germans made their most menacing gains — he telephoned that the attack had ‘ slowed down and it looked as though we would be able to hold out and even make a counter-attack ’ . |
| 14 | Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard . |
| 15 | They had looked to be a one-pace crew in practice and it seemed as though they had no answer to Oxford 's attack . |
| 16 | The rehearsal had gone well , and it seemed as though he had successfully jumped the chasm between off- and on-Broadway . |
| 17 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 18 | The former Northern Ireland champion won the first frame 71-45 but McCluskey took the second 57-37 and it seemed as though the Ulsterman was in for a tough fight . |
| 19 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 20 | You hear Zerlina singing and it sounds as though her voice is coming not out of her mouth but out of a tree on the other side of the set . |
| 21 | Similarly , ‘ Railwayed ’ and ‘ Drive That Fast ’ incorporate these great bits of acceleration , where Patrick starts bouncing up and down and it sounds as though all of Julian 's dozen effects pedals are going ‘ WOOOSH ! ’ at the same time . |
| 22 | It was his first experience of such blatant prejudice and it came as a shock . |
| 23 | The tree-tops were bowing in the rising wind , and it sounded as though they , too , were sighing . |
| 24 | and it sounded as though it was on the railway but it was n't the railway it was a big factory at the side . |
| 25 | And it claimed as the travellers were n't proper gipsies , the council had no legal duty to provide a place for them to stay . |
| 26 | Actor Philip Bond is no stranger to the bard and it shows as he injects a world weary stance through various theatrical gesticulations . |
| 27 | It has already changed the pattern of life in America , and it seems as though our turn has now arrived . |
| 28 | It certainly has one of the most well thought-out texts , and it seems as though Handel , although no great literary expert , always responded well to libretti of quality . |
| 29 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 30 | Even when you see a stage performance of hypnotism and it seems as though the ‘ unwilling ’ subjects are being made to act against their will , that is not really the case . |