Example sentences of "as it [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 2 | Etched into Kinder Scout 's northern flanks , the clough provides pleasant rock-hopping as it twists and turns upwards until you enter a fine , hidden amphitheatre which gives good scrambling up rocky steps . |
| 3 | Hidden behind their line of sight was a precision , a passion , a calling which chilled as it touched and made the other two pause . |
| 4 | Especially as it melts and forms a |
| 5 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 6 | A light , creamy Gentle Purifying Cleanser softens as it cleanses and the Gentle Moisturising Cream is easily absorbed to sooth the skin and offer long-lasting protection . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been closely monitoring the project as it progresses and introducing the operator 's staff to a number of techniques we use to evaluate the potential of the blocks . ’ |
| 8 | Pains that increase as the sun rises to midday and decrease as it falls and sets |
| 9 | Pains that increase as the sun rises to midday and decrease as it falls and sets ( like in Natrum mur and Tabacum . |
| 10 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 11 | He was attracted to her , as any red-blooded male would be to any presentable woman in these circumstances , but that was as far as it went and it was up to her to make sure her own feelings did n't betray her . |
| 12 | This is a particular risk also with stakes — when wind blow rocks the plant or stake , there is a likelihood of the stem or stake opening a funnel-shaped hole around itself as it rocks and compresses the soil . |
| 13 | Glass , like other substances , contracts as it cools and if the outer parts of the glass be cooled and hardened before the inner parts then the outside will , of course , contract more initially than the inside but , since the inside is still soft , it will yield in the early stages of cooling . |
| 14 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 15 | The frosting will harden as it cools and , as you are spreading it , it will cool more rapidly . |
| 16 | Even depressed Fort William takes on a magnificence from this height as it glitters and reflects the late evening sun . |
| 17 | Repetitions in the text , as well as breaks of pattern , suggest the four fragments may represent stages in composition between A and C , with a more complex scheme emerging as it developed and an entirely new beginning in Fragment D. |
| 18 | This is not always necessary on liquid-based foundation as it dries and will set without leaving any residue . |
| 19 | They are , in fact , the beaches of ice-drained lakes left behind by successive falls in the glacier as it melted and was released from the valley at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 20 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 21 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 22 | Surely that hideously charcoaled horror should have shrunk as it cooked and disintegrated . |
| 23 | A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon , urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went . |
| 24 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 25 | They walked towards the unsteady steps , and a figure took shape out of the darkness , weaving as it came and blinking dazedly as the lantern was lifted to illuminate its face . |
| 26 | Understand why something happens as it does and you are your own master , able to use your common sense and logic to make judgements and decisions . |
| 27 | and the moon starts coming across the sky as it does and it gets in the way of the sun . |
| 28 | The petrol tank split open as it rolled and most of the gas spilled out over the hill . ’ |
| 29 | Crying is more usual in the evenings and the baby may draw its legs up as it cries and become very red in the face . |
| 30 | It was the last age when the railway station was an essential ingredient of every traveller 's itinerary : point of departure , point of arrival , point of contact en route with everyday life as it teemed and flowed outside the protective cocoon of the train . |