Example sentences of "as [pers pn] were [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but particularly with reference to John Major , I think he 's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote , and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him , and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and |
| 2 | ‘ The hospital asked me to let them know as soon as you were on your way . |
| 3 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , ’ he ground out , ‘ were you as clinging with him as you were with me ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You are as skilful as you were with my wife , Wilson , ’ he remarked . |
| 5 | The months of living in close proximity to her were taking their toll , combined as they were with his previous ascetic life . |
| 6 | Things could n't go on as they were without something happening , and she had intuitively known that when it did her life would be forever changed . |
| 7 | The ladies were not quite so successful in disposing of their offspring as they were of their husbands , though they did their best . |
| 8 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 9 | Oliver was now a strong and healthy boy , and very fond of Rose and Mrs Maylie — as they were of him . |
| 10 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |
| 11 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 12 | At Calcutta , England were criticised for selecting four fast bowlers in their belief that the Indian batsmen could be upset by quicker bowling , as they were on their recent tour of South Africa . |
| 13 | Though heavily laden as they were on their trek back to the crofts , they did not complain . |
| 14 | It left him shaken , for the outlines of her plan were taking shape in his mind — exactly as they were in hers . |
| 15 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 16 | Although the above analysis does not require that the distribution of future cash flows be known with certainty ( as they were in our example above ) , it does imply that there is no new information in the qualification . |
| 17 | The principles of homoeopathy , as laid down by Hahnemann , are as valid today as they were in his time . |
| 18 | Produced by Igelfilm in Germany , the film examines Mr Niemoller 's prophetic stance on topics which are as relevant now as they were in his lifetime . |
| 19 | The political and the literary are as inextricably merged in Nizan 's posthumous existence as they were in his lived existence . |
| 20 | Outsiders , who generally initiated the drainage , were as unimpressed by the men of the marshes as they were by their stagnant swamps . |
| 21 | This remarkable piece has historic as well as artistic interest , for the intricately worked base is the only contemporaneous illustration of the town 's fortifications as they were after their re-building in 1675–88 . |
| 22 | As long as it were worth it ! |
| 23 | I mean , she sort of flew the kite as it were with you know , if the wife was erm presumably the husband in other cases was mad beyond belief it was a good reason for casting her off . |
| 24 | In such a case the impression is given that Jesus is , as it were on his own , and with no reference needing to be made to the other persons of the trinity , God . |
| 25 | When the job is over , I then write a brief summary appraisal , as it were on his performance . |
| 26 | Erm , it was not possible to get your views in , as it were , personnel terms rather than financial terms on that er report , but er as it were on your behalf , we supported the Treasurer 's er recommendation for reasons set out in paragraph one four , and if I can er explain that for you a little little more , de-regulation could mean , that each employing authority has it 's own scheme of superannuation , or not , and if not would simply leave employees in a position of taking them off the state scheme S E R P S or going for a personal pension . |
| 27 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |
| 28 | To follow a rule , e.g. the rule for use of the word ‘ pain ’ ( the rule embodied in the concept of pain ) , is not to check , as it were within oneself , on whether this new sensation resembles the original one and , if it does , to think of it as a pain . |
| 29 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 30 | to St John erm she hears the call as it were from somebody who really needs |