Example sentences of "as [pers pn] were [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as you were shown round the Home when you first came to work there , so a new resident should also be taken round and made to feel welcome . |
| 2 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 3 | Or you might have become part of a large co-operative farm , where you would virtually farm as you were told in every facet by those in charge . |
| 4 | As we were getting into the how of it — and drinking more of that dark liquid — the servant hurried in with an apology and squeaked something . |
| 5 | The opening pitches of Spartan yielded to a steady , workmanlike approach , but doubts began to creep in as we were delayed by the American and his partner , who spent as much time conversing as climbing . |
| 6 | One morning , as we were sailing round the Cape of Good Hope , they attacked me and tied me up . |
| 7 | One day as we were going to a choral concert in Bath Abbey , we were all three walking along the Parade when my mother stopped Dana and said , pointing across the road : ‘ That 's the police station . |
| 8 | As we were sitting in the station waiting-room , waiting for the train to Zaragoza , he took my hand and wept . |
| 9 | On Thursday we were taken out to see a revolutionary opera , and it was quite an experience , especially as we were sitting in the 2nd row of the stalls , within ear-splitting distance of the gongs and drums which play a large part in the orchestral accompaniment . |
| 10 | The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights . |
| 11 | They said : ’ As soon as we were informed of the complaint , we investigated the matter . |
| 12 | A warm draught blew across the platform , one which could only be a Mediterranean breeze or synthetically produced , the latter being more likely as we were standing under a dull winter 's day in London . |
| 13 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 14 | So that , when she went to the headmistress with what I was supposed to have done to her as we were changing after a singles tennis game , of course everyone believed her . |
| 15 | Cameras were hurriedly produced , which was no easy matter as we were squeezed in a very small boat , and everyone was in everyone else 's way as we tried to take photographs . |
| 16 | The airport brings major economic benefits to the North West as we were to discover with the help of our guide John Kirby . |
| 17 | As we were installed in a sort of penthouse flat , with no lift : and as occasionally a guest had found the front-door bell erratic in its functioning , I hurried down to see what , if anything , had been happening . |
| 18 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 19 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 20 | The shrill creak of the hinges as we were closed into the suffocating darkness of that cliff-top grave was a terrifying sound . |
| 21 | For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man : but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost . ’ ( v. 20/21 ) . |
| 22 | The new group — ‘ the Disestablishment ’ as they were christened in a series of articles in the Financial Times — was highly fluid . |
| 23 | From then on , as they were repainted in the new red livery , the remainder were renumbered 1–20 , in the reverse order of their old numbers . |
| 24 | Many passengers suffered broken bones or concussion as they were flung through the car . |
| 25 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 26 | If the Mandelas were feeling any strain from the trial , it was n't evident ; they smiled broadly as they were escorted by the dancing , chanting crowd to their waiting car . |
| 27 | He recalls , without explicit statement ( though their letters affirm it ) , the way in which he and Helen interwove poetry with their own voyages of mutual discovery : We treat them [ poems ] as parts written for ourselves to act , in the spirit , as they were written by the poet , in the spirit . |
| 28 | In the United States , the Library of Congress has been classifying and cataloguing audio-visual materials for many years , so long as they were deposited at the Library for copyright purposes . |
| 29 | As they were examined in the special admission ward Doctor and our Medical Superintendent tried to keep families together . |
| 30 | Other implied terms seen in the context of hire include an obligation to deliver the goods in substantially the same condition as they were inspected by the hirer . |