Example sentences of "as they [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage two large windows were let into the wall each side of the rose window to give more light , but these were removed when the cathedral was restored in the early part of this century as they were not in keeping with the original design . |
| 2 | They have claimed that Sarah and Jane were barely troubled by the divorce as they were away at school , that Charles , aged four , was too young to understand while Diana , then seven , reacted to the break up with ‘ the unthinking resilience of her age ’ or even regarded it as ‘ fresh excitement ’ in her young life . |
| 3 | We now had to keep the children confined to a thin corridor of safety , hemmed in as they were both by insects and reptiles . |
| 4 | This impressive series of statutes may owe something to the influence of Justinian 's Code and Digest , which was the core of Roman law and the foundation of the training of civil lawyers ; yet while Roman law was part of the atmosphere breathed by nearly all lawyers in the thirteenth century , and at least one outstanding civil lawyer , Vacarius , was familiar to Englishmen , the statutes on the whole betray little impress of Justinian , concerned as they were largely with the clarification of traditional indigenous and feudal problems . |
| 5 | As they were rarely in the office together , he found his orders constantly changing . |
| 6 | This was always going to be a difficult match for Hammer to win , as they were up against a ‘ Mill side eager to take the trophy for the first time since 1974 . |
| 7 | They were astonished when we said ‘ Yes ’ Everyone remembers the holiday chalets — ‘ our little houses ’ as they were soon to be called . |
| 8 | As soon as they were aloft in the rotor , Roirbak called Acropolis Park . |
| 9 | He held her close again , and as they were about to part she said , ‘ Charlie , ’ and he said , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 10 | As they were so into The Faces they 'd go down to Richmond . |
| 11 | Ballyfermot is a high-rise architectural nightmare on the outskirts of Dublin , a working-class ghetto sufficiently distant from the bourgeois elegance of the city centre as to pose no threat to the burgeoning middle class , absorbed as they were then in the mild stirrings of environmentalism , as Georgian Dublin vanished up its own pastiched arsehole . |
| 12 | Several others turned back as soon as they were out of the shade of their flower because , as they pointed out , ‘ . |
| 13 | As soon as they were out of the traffic and heading northwards up the main Al trunk road , Madeleine snuggled closer to Harry . |
| 14 | The boys looked on the Venetian corner as a godsend and came every day as soon as they were out of school to throw stones at it . |
| 15 | As soon as they were out of the grounds , petty concerns about Deana Davenport and hospital gossip washed cleanly away , made surprisingly unimportant by the relaxing hum of Tom Russell 's car as they drove . |
| 16 | Joanna had vowed to send a message to Guy as soon as they were out of sight . |
| 17 | As soon as they were back at the auberge , Iris vanished into their minuscule en suite bathroom . |
| 18 | So it was agreed that while Mrs MacDonagh would go on looking after the two youngest Milligans during the day , Dermot , Fergal and Mike , the eldest brothers , would take over as soon as they were back from school . |