Example sentences of "[conj] as [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other treble scorers were Julian Pritchard at the United Pack and Simon Andrews at the Puckeridge , where As You Were recovered his form in the Ladies race . |
| 2 | He showed his ability to adapt his performance as either the whim took him or as he was taken by circumstances . |
| 3 | Then came Samuel Robert ( Sam ) , Etty , Louis and Jack ( or as I was mis-named on my birth certificate Ezra . |
| 4 | Another lovely walk that the family occasionally took was to West Harnham or as it was known locally ‘ Watery Harnham ’ , a fitting nickname for there was always plenty in the rivers , streams and water meadows . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 6 | Also , he realised that as he was reaching the end of his search he was reaching the end of his time in Naples as well . |
| 7 | JTR wrote that as he was sailing through the Kyles of Bute on the solid Iona . |
| 8 | Erm on the supplementary paper sent round you will see at I think it 's page one and two , a letter received from the Carters Mead Resident 's Association erm I hope you 've all had a chance to read that as it was circulated to members in advance . |
| 9 | Wight , Bell and Connell were all Advocates , Bell being the well-known lecturer in conveyancing , and as they were dealing with and considering Statutes and the forms attached to them , they had to follow the spelling of the Statute and not substitute their own spelling . |
| 10 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 11 | They set off across the square and as they were passing Florian 's , Julia said : |
| 12 | Joseph lead the team towards the children 's section and as they were passing through a second explosion was felt . |
| 13 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 14 | At clipping time the sheep were driven in and penned , and as they were clipped , the fleeces were thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery and put at once into the wool store . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 16 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 17 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |
| 18 | And as they were coming back they would be cawing . |
| 19 | when you life them up , well of course the they 've seen so many mice , she grabbed two in that mouth straight away and two and as they were going up she grabbed |
| 20 | We thanked him and as we were leaving he added that we could leave all the press arrangements to him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And as we were coming home from Rousay pier we met the Wyre post boat coming across for the mails that we already had dumped in Rousay . |
| 23 | Anyway , erm we went to the Ca Polly had n't seen them in the shops anywhere and went to Caerphilly market on Saturday morning and as we were coming from it he said look there 's a shirt you want for Robert there . |
| 24 | As you 've heard we 've been cutting costs pretty significantly over the last couple of years erm what we 're talking about is three thousand people having been er made redundant over the two and a half years and as we were saying earlier substantial redundancy costs have had to be borne . |
| 25 | And as it was revealed house prices were still falling , Nat West chairman Lord Alexander said : ‘ There is continuing , widespread deep recession in the UK . ’ |
| 26 | In the period since the Second World War , political stability , economic growth , and a broad societal consensus , meant that the constitution as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , were all seen as of one , pulling together in mutual support in a way that called for " no change " . |
| 27 | Simply expressed , the set-up as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , had all pulled apart in a way that called for change . |
| 28 | He seeks to restore the status quo as it was between July 1990 and September 1991 and as it was confirmed by the Australian court in the divorce proceedings . |
| 29 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 30 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |