Example sentences of "but as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as it receded , and she became increasingly aware of the strength of Nathan 's desire for her , the urgent hunger in his kisses , her fear became overwhelming . |
| 2 | In January 1987 , yet another judge stated that the March ruling was , in fact , in breach of statute but as it had not been appealed against it had to stand . |
| 3 | But as it had to be borne , I shook my head . |
| 4 | The drum disappeared beneath him and Marie thought he 'd lost it but as it shot to the surface Gazzer yelled : ‘ It 's pulling him free ! ’ |
| 5 | She wished frantically to go faster , and the broomstick sped away ; but as it spurted past , the weathercock made a savage peck at it , and Carol , glancing round , saw that it had snatched a bunch of twigs out with its beak . |
| 6 | But as it came closer there was no mistaking the great leafy bird which flew across the road and disappeared over the top of the hill . |
| 7 | But as it rushed up the side of the church steeple Carol had a fright . |
| 8 | He could not recall agreeing to this at all , but as it offered a chance of avoiding his own intervention , he nodded fervently , and took some more almond soup . |
| 9 | He considered leaving the rucksack on the train , but as it contained several of his favourite Fair Isle jumpers , and this was bonny Scotland after all , he thought better of it and shouldered the thing . |
| 10 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 11 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 12 | But it , but as it went |
| 13 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 14 | But as it emerged , his was the performance which caught fire quicker than any , helped by the deftly-timed efforts of a double doing spectacular somersaults . |
| 15 | I wondered how I should broach this subject but as it happened , Dame Edna opened her heart . |
| 16 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 17 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 18 | They had to pass the restaurant in order to reach the right road ; but as it happened nobody even looked at them . |
| 19 | For the next hour or two , Mr Handford tried to rectify the fault in the chilly darkness , but as it proved impossible , he decided to wait until daylight and to get some sleep meanwhile . |
| 20 | But as it faded when they stopped , she wanted to repeat their coupling again , and drown again in the sweet rush of forgetfulness , until the time when she would bring it all to an end , or so she promised herself she would . |
| 21 | At first it was a long , gentle kiss , but as it deepened it caused Lucy 's heart to thump and her breath to quicken . |
| 22 | Guests paid £25 per head for the two-hour function , but as it overran by three minutes , they gladly paid out an additional £25 . |
| 23 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 24 | I used to model for a hairdresser — Herberts in Liverpool — and I had my hair dyed blonde and red , it looked great — honest , but as it started to grow out I neglected it . |
| 25 | But as It celebrated a year of publication it had grown from twelve to twenty pages , with the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section now , significantly , filling two tightly set pages at the back , and the Arts Lab offering a ‘ Black Power Week ’ complete with Stokeley Carmichael — bundled out of the country post Dialectics of Liberation — on film , and ‘ Michael Abdul Malik and guests ’ . |
| 26 | He said that ‘ Every player has their price , if the offer were 2M Id have rejected it , but as it nudged 3M I felt it was a good deal for Leeds ’ . |
| 27 | He said that ‘ Every player has their price , if the offer were 2M Id have rejected it , but as it nudged 3M I felt it was a good deal for Leeds ’ . |
| 28 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 29 | Gently at first , but as it aroused her he opened his mouth to take in the full upward curve of her left breast . |
| 30 | I seemed all set to continue my way to the top outdoors , but as it turned out , the highlight of my summer was getting my photograph in Athletics Weekly , the bible of the sport , for the first time . |