Example sentences of "as [pron] be when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew she was just as scared as I was when we heard the cat on the stairs . |
| 2 | I 'VE never been so moved before as I was when I saw on TV the rescue of a boy who had collapsed on his way to a feeding centre in Somalia . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you . |
| 4 | ‘ It was great , the letters were just as they were when we received them . ’ |
| 5 | In a smaller stadium they will not be so passionate as they were when they beat the Americans in the final . ’ |
| 6 | Kipling 's rooms and study are left as they were when he wrote many of his best known works . |
| 7 | The house is much as it was when he lived there . |
| 8 | Another day , another theatre , but the enthusiasm is just as strong as it was when he started as a raw Liverpudlian with his group the Pacemakers . |
| 9 | It was a home that the great prophet of Gothic designed for himself and his family , and today it is still as strange and startling as it was when he built it around 1835 . |
| 10 | His campaigning manner today is much the same as it was when he set out three weeks ago to seek his coveted mandate . |
| 11 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 12 | I chose housing as my theme for the Dimbleby Lecture , and I enunciated a belief which is as firm today as it was when I delivered it : |
| 13 | Were n't on the phone for as long as he is when he rung you here was he ? |
| 14 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 15 | The refugees were the same age as he was when he escaped from East Germany 37 years ago . |