Example sentences of "as [pron] be [adv] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I was out of sight of the school I cut up through the cottages and round the back of the school on to the path to Bourani . |
| 2 | I suppose if he had been wifeless you would have had me married off to him as soon as I was out of mourning ! ’ |
| 3 | Avoiding their curious glances , she walked round to the hardware section and tried to shut her ears to the whispered conversations that suddenly broke out as soon as she was out of sight . |
| 4 | The boys looked on the Venetian corner as a godsend and came every day as soon as they were out of school to throw stones at it . |
| 5 | Joanna had vowed to send a message to Guy as soon as they were out of sight . |
| 6 | At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency . |
| 7 | As long as he is out of work , seeking a job and unable to draw a pension , the DSS can keep up his mortgage payments . |
| 8 | As soon as he was out of sight he began to sing , very loudly . |
| 9 | And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in . |
| 10 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |