Example sentences of "as it [be] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I 'm happy to serve as long as it is n't you know , I mean I I ca n't give a lot of time because er my time 's so committed . |
| 2 | Gentle exercise such as walking is as valid when you are old as it is when you are young . |
| 3 | Erm so it 's worth doing that we I , cos I was gon na go I was gon na go Thursday and just come back on the Monday but as it is now we 'll go Wednesday and have Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , Saturday , Sunday night , so we 'll come back on the Monday . |
| 4 | I said and there 's there 's me panicking like I said I said I 'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about |
| 5 | As it is now it 's bloody awful . |
| 6 | you know , as it is now it 's very lovely . |
| 7 | well as it is now you , you know , you really do n't wan na be half of them up there and half of them down here on a table . |
| 8 | ‘ Long as it 's not you 'e 's interested in , ’ Fred said shortly . |
| 9 | That 's right , yeah , where as it 's now they 're all going to open up , gon na go chasing around |
| 10 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 11 | Here , the house as it was when it was bought and , below , the same view three years ago |
| 12 | ‘ With the passage of time , some things like shutters have disappeared , ’ he said , ‘ but mostly the house is just as it was when it was finished in 1906 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His campaigning manner today is much the same as it was when he set out three weeks ago to seek his coveted mandate . |
| 15 | The house is much as it was when he lived there . |
| 16 | Terry still made extravagant gestures of devotion to Sarah but to Joe the situation seemed much as it was when he was last at home . |
| 17 | Having studied the text and read critical appreciations of it , my natural reaction to Satan is still the same as it was when he first appeared to me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A living fossil gives the first interview in her career , and describes life as it was when she first roamed the Earth |
| 20 | My brain 's not defunct — it 's as sharp as it was when I was 21 . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 23 | As suddenly as it was there it was gone again , retracted back into the body of the stick . |
| 24 | If she had harmed Ishmael I would , but as long as it was only me that was injured , I could not blame her . |
| 25 | And I 'd been to top standard as it was then it was standard seven , and as the er you know now they let when the when they 've somebody in so long they let them walk about and come home and all so That time of day you got to you 'd got to pass examins and exams and such like as that . |
| 26 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 27 | ‘ Course they went on to grammar school as 't was in they days . |