Example sentences of "as it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many times as it took to kill . |
| 2 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 3 | ‘ Five minutes — as long as it took to accept that it was a fact of life and then find my lawyer 's phone number . ' ’ |
| 4 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 5 | It lasted as long as it took to bring her breathing back under control . |
| 6 | It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place . |
| 7 | He said the RA expected it to be long campaign but were prepared to give it as long as it took to secure their aims . |
| 8 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 9 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 10 | Only just as long as it took to get a licence . ’ |
| 11 | Well theoretically I would wait as long as it took to wash the mess off the roof . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 13 | But it argues ministers should hesitate before going further with the publication of information that could be misused in the same way as it says occurred with published exam results . |
| 14 | In this it met with the approval of the US Senate , as it avoided committing the USA to any action overseas , while answering the great yearning of the American people for peace in the world . |
| 15 | Awareness of the possible truth of paradox is a most helpful way in to appreciating the nature of religious language as it wrestles to express experience . |
| 16 | 1992 was a particularly difficult and frustrating year on the whole for the management business as it struggled to replace the loss of business from the private commercial sector , the mainstay in the past , and re-orientate its services to the public sector . |
| 17 | It dragged their small boat for several miles and as it struggled to get free it spat out a human torso , some pieces of wetsuit and a face mask . |
| 18 | Once one of the world 's most profitable firms , Big Blue last year tumbled to a record-breaking $1 billion loss as it struggled to keep up with technical change , plummeting prices and a wave of new competition in the computer market . |
| 19 | As it swung shut behind her , she jumped me . |
| 20 | He stressed , however , that Pakistan had no intention of producing a bomb as it wished to concentrate on economic development . |
| 21 | Humanity is n't as sacred as it likes to think . |
| 22 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 23 | The fact that unsatisfied demand is itself a complex and unresolved problem for librarians does not diminish the problem as it relates to stock logistics . |
| 24 | We will not follow Gassendi in much of this , but it will be of interest to note what he says in so far as it relates to experience . |
| 25 | This leads me to analyse political behaviour , especially as it relates to conflict . |
| 26 | Ending the decades-long full employment tradition , IBM Corp on Tuesday formally laid off 1,400 employees at its Kingston and Poughkeepsie , New York mainframe plants , as it continued to notify workers of layoffs at its East Fishkill plant , where 4,000 jobs are to be cut in a combination of layoffs , transfers and voluntary redundancy by May 31 . |
| 27 | It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , splits in the Cabinet are rumoured as it meets to discuss next year 's Government spending programme . |
| 29 | As it goes to do so , the bug stabs it with its dagger-shaped mouth-parts . |
| 30 | Miles crossed decisively to the starpod , unsealed the hatch and swung himself into the cabin , smiling as it snuggled shut behind him with a soft pneumatic wheeze . |