Example sentences of "as it [be] he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As it is he knows nothing whatever about me .
2 As it was he had to be satisfied with a rise of 48 per cent to £514,558 , well below the highest-paid public company boss , Lord Hanson , who received £1.5million for his efforts .
3 As it was he had obviously grown tired of the regular struggles and gone off to find someone who gave in more readily .
4 As it was he had to find his own way out of an embrace involving him far more seriously than he intended .
5 As it was he tried to think of other things .
6 Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m .
7 In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life .
8 Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him .
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