Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be [subord] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than just muddle on as I was before it was highlighted and said well these need watching . |
| 2 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 3 | I 'm just hoping that I could learn as I 'm as I 'm earning you know . |
| 4 | These are as essential when you 're planning a company training seminar with twenty-five people as they are when you 're organising an 8,000 delegate , fifty-nation , ten-day congress . |
| 5 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 6 | We shall not have a complete theory until we can do more than merely say that ‘ things are as they are because they were as they were . ’ |
| 7 | You do n't have to draw the continent and oceans exactly as they are because it 's a diagram . |
| 8 | Er , we did er you know practise military formations as they were as they were practised in er in those days and so on . |
| 9 | It is necessary if you are a scientist , as it is if you are a juggler or an aficionado of the French horn , to employ jargon . |
| 10 | They also had in mind that the platform could be removed , leaving the warehouse in substantially the same state as it was before it was installed . |
| 11 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
| 12 | I just did n't know it was as much of a tribute as it was until I was told … rather abruptly ! |
| 13 | I hope you think that this is important more important to you as it were than it is , is to us because you the clubs and the sailing schools really really must take these sorts of messages on board , not perhaps all of that list there but I would pick out erm that the message that we want to get across to young people , I would pick out the words fun , the words challenging , the words safe , alright . |
| 14 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 15 | They 'd have welcomed him because he is as he is while I was remote , cold . |
| 16 | it 's clean as he was when he was new . |