Example sentences of "as when [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came down almost as big as when they went up . |
| 2 | Nails , unlike Jazz and Hoomey , looked just as weedy as when they had started their training — so much so , in fact , that his puny appearance along with his new , apparent docility had set the school 's pastoral care department into action . |
| 3 | At one point , roughly the same point as when they had to borrow money from Andy 's mum , their telephone was cut off , and all business was conducted from a call box in Chiswick High Road . |
| 4 | In one of their questions they asked respondents whether their job required more , less or the same skill as when they had started work . |
| 5 | She knew immediately that Roman 's mood had changed ; he was looking as grim as when they had first met , but he said nothing as they got into the car . |
| 6 | This domination eventually came more because of what the forwards were doing when they had not won possession as when they had . |
| 7 | He is giving Gascoigne the platform to perform in the same way as France built a side around Michel Platini , and Argentina around Diego Maradona — the latter never more evident as when they won the World Cup in 1986 . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ Leeds are not playing with the same confidence as when they won the title . |
| 9 | But otherwise it 's just the same as when they flew . |
| 10 | They pick a year in the future when they know that there will have been a general election and that they will probably not be in the same job as when they gave the commitment . |
| 11 | When restrictions on bank credit were relaxed , companies found it more advantageous to lend and borrow through banks , particularly as when they dealt directly transactions were unsecured . |
| 12 | Green also records what his children have been doing by themselves — the girls visiting Keswick neighbours to drink tea , or going with their brothers on a journey to Kendal , or sometimes dining out , as when they visited Mr. James Fleming at Grasmere . |
| 13 | As when they wheeled you through the swinging door . |
| 14 | It gets bigger , and everything on its surface gets carried away from everything else — just the same as when we thought the sheet was flat . ’ |
| 15 | The stairs were just as wet and dangerous as when we 'd got on . |
| 16 | The same as when we got to Norwich and them places , we used to pitch the trusses up into the wicket . |
| 17 | Looking at the team — Lukic had an awful time last year , was as bad as when we got relegated . |
| 18 | I wonder if it 's the same address as when we got ours ? |
| 19 | I wonder if it 's the same address as when we got ours ? |
| 20 | It is to see whether , when someone pinches Rockall , we shall sail to replant the Union flag upon it , exclaiming ‘ Rejoice , rejoice , ’ as when we repossessed the likewise uninhabited South Georgia . |
| 21 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 22 | ‘ It was always planned he would come back on the bus , but when the usual head count was made for the return journey we , of course , had the same number as when we started out — without Kenny . ’ |
| 23 | Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ . |
| 24 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
| 25 | The whole situation seemed both tragic and also profoundly humiliating — as when she 'd picked up one of his sweaters , packed in her suitcase by mistake . |
| 26 | Though Maggie was eighteen , tall and attractive , she was still as much in awe of Moran as when she had been a child . |
| 27 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 28 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 29 | Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen . |
| 30 | She looked the same as when she had been twenty-nine , before the birth of the child . |