Example sentences of "it [vb past] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moved as the Germans advanced . |
| 2 | It was his first experience of such blatant prejudice and it came as a shock . |
| 3 | It came as the drug took control and she began to slide away . |
| 4 | It came as the Labour leadership put its weight behind a tactical Commons move which threatens to wreck the Maastricht bill or force the Government to accept the social chapter . |
| 5 | It happened as the manager arrived to open up at Cotswold Newsmarket on Priory Road in Cheltenham . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It vanished as the wide sweep of grey-blue sea fell beneath the rising ground behind the town , and as the bus trundled westward I looked out on a landscape of untroubled peace . |
| 8 | However , that figure was in fact far better than it looked as the banks had the worst ranking of any sector , with an average negative rating of -1,357 . |
| 9 | First , the charge is inherently more regressive than the rates it replaced as the tax base is the individual rather than the size of his of her property ( Travers 1989a:21 ) . |