Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 2 | This was odd as it indicated that the winter flock had already scattered as separate pairs at this very early date . |
| 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 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 9 | To do this , an ideal model based on the equality paradigm was constructed and then compared with a neutral model reflecting the further education system as it existed before the Act took effect . |
| 10 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |
| 11 | The government of Bosnia-Hercegovina under President Alija Izetbegovic continued as the internationally recognized government of Bosnia-Hercegovina but had lost control of most of the territory of the state as it existed when it was recognized internationally in April 1992 [ see p. 38848 ] . |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 15 | Fergus waited until the herd was as close as it looked like it was going to come , then sighted on the limping beast , still two hundred yards away . |
| 16 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
| 17 | Just as it looked as though he was going to be " bridesmaid " again in 1986m he emerged from a tense season as champion for a third time , but it was not resolved until the very last race of the season once more . |
| 18 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
| 19 | No no and we even if we were offered them we would n't take them because the logic of the thing is that what we 're trying to show is a medieval house as it looked when it was nearly new . |
| 20 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 21 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 22 | So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system . |
| 23 | Some people claimed to have seen the sun turn in the sky , in the same way as it had when the miracle occurred so many years before . |
| 24 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |
| 25 | In the circumstances , hotel use was clearly a good second best , as it meant that the staterooms could be used for functions and so still seen by the public . |
| 26 | Being unemployed in the TA was a positive advantage as it meant that I could devote all my time to training . |
| 27 | As far as myself , Mike and Marius were concerned , this was a good thing , as it meant that the march was going to be tough and that those of us who finished would deserve their white képis . |
| 28 | He was jealous of Florian , she accepted , but she could take little comfort or encouragement from the knowledge , except in so far as it meant that he was n't ready to put an end to their affair quite yet . |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal doubted the validity of trespass ab initio , as it meant that lawful acts could be made unlawful by subsequent events and the lawfulness of an act should be judged at the time it took place . |
| 30 | Surely that hideously charcoaled horror should have shrunk as it cooked and disintegrated . |