Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magee paid it little heed as he continued his nocturnal stroll , looking around him constantly , occasionally slowing down to look over his shoulder or perhaps changing direction quickly , ducking into a group of people . |
| 2 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 3 | Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed . |
| 4 | Yeah it only clicked as you 'd gone , when I had to do it . |
| 5 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 6 | I imagine it perhaps starting as one , and then escalating , as Serafin waits , smiling eagerly at her pupil , and Summerchild hunts back through his life for the required circumstances , covering his retreat with bursts of fire as he goes . |
| 7 | It just sounded as though you had . |
| 8 | No it it just feels as though You know I ca n't er ca n't shift it . |
| 9 | No it just feels as though like You know how you get summat stuck in your throat ? |
| 10 | People could n't see the danger we were in — in fact Lee could n't see it either — because it just looked as though his ball was in a sand hole . |
| 11 | It just seems as though it flashes in my mind , I do n't know it I think I 've always had a had a overactive mind , actually , you know I 've always worked |
| 12 | Occasionally , it just looks as though someone 's not going to turn up because for one reason or another they 've been held up . |
| 13 | And i I you know , it it just looks as though erm they 're trying to force more and more onto the voluntary erm centres and the voluntary organizations , to provide resources and to provide help . |
| 14 | all the way round here , it just looks as though the on top of the bath robe cot into the oh into the look along there |
| 15 | It was to be financed by advertising revenue , but was it best described as ‘ commercial ’ or as ‘ independent ’ , as complementary to the BBC or as competitor ? |
| 16 | It finally looked as though Adobe had won the day and that there would now be a single stable standard . |
| 17 | They describe it in such a way that it finally appears as it is , that is to say intolerable . " |
| 18 | " Artisan " could embrace many independent craftsmen trading in their own product from their own shops , but it usually covered as well those skilled manufacturers dependent on work put out by merchant capitalists and wage-earning journeymen on employers ' premises . |
| 19 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 20 | I said that I just happened to have my travelling rod with me … though it hardly mattered as they had more than enough gear . |
| 21 | As such it hardly qualified as a date , but try telling her heart that ! |
| 22 | ( It also dismissed as " totally false " the claim that babies had died because of the looting of incubators by Iraqi troops . ) |
| 23 | Not only does the pattern of young people 's activities change over time , it also changes as they age . |
| 24 | It also looks as though Kinnock is close to announcing his personal support for changing the electoral system . |
| 25 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |
| 26 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 27 | Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act . |
| 28 | The deadline on the payment , which is the final tranche of a total Bond investment of more than £154m , is early November , but it now looks as though the money could be paid over as early as next week . |
| 29 | Mr Ivan Norman , 30 , Business Operations Director for Nevada Bob 's , said : ‘ The Easter weekend , April and May periods , are the busiest of the year for us It now looks as though we will spend them temporarily out of business . ’ |
| 30 | As shown with Elizabeth and Harry , the man feels very much threatened , as he 's lost his job , by retiring , and it now looks as though he is losing his wife as well . |