Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] as [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
| 2 | But this was not good enough for French as he had to consider the Wallaby players who had a fixture 24 hours later against Eastern Province and the test with the Springboks four days later . |
| 3 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 4 | The sky was dark and threatening and Felipe had looked like that as he 'd left the house . |
| 5 | After the series in Australia , Mike Brearley announced that he would not be able to tour in 1980–1 as he wanted to continue his studies in psychoanalysis , and the England selectors decided to appoint a new captain for the start of the 1980 rubber . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister herself had reaffirmed her commitment to the " founding principles " of the service in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in 1982 as she sought to allay public suspicion that the health service might not be safe in her hands . |
| 7 | The slick , which formed after the vessel hit rocks and broke in two as it waited to dock in heavy seas off La Coruna , was being driven East into the Bay of Biscay towards popular resorts like San Sesbastian . |
| 8 | For her , the evening had not turned out at all as she had hoped . |
| 9 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 10 | He had not quietened down at all as he had grown older — far from it — and could not now be still for a single moment . |
| 11 | I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush . |