Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it [be] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working .
2 Mind you with the site as it is I would imagine it would give most usage on that .
3 But er the welfare one was my er secret love as it were it was .
4 It was as much their world as it was ours , and the recollection of other less co-fraternal moments such as 1776 or 1812 were displaced by these representations of shared origins .
5 In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game .
6 Near the close , Holding began to lay about him and was dropped off a skyer ; next morning he continued in the same vein to ensure his team a first innings lead , and ensure , too , that Bob Willis 's Test career would end on an unhappy note as it was he who took most of the stick .
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