Example sentences of "as he [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His introduction will be no walk-over but if he is half as good over fences as he was over hurdles , he should win . |
| 2 | Westmacott could not follow as he was under attack by the Bf109s , but the Controller later reported that the bomber 's ‘ plot ’ had disappeared from the radar screen halfway to Sicily , and Westmacott was awarded a probable . |
| 3 | He may not , however , have sat in the final term as he was under sentence of excommunication , possibly for his part in the battle of Lewes . |
| 4 | Nigel accompanied her , as he was on his way to see his mother . |
| 5 | They were ordered by Stirling to stay put and wait for him , as he was on his way back to the desert . |
| 6 | I think he 's as far wrong on that as he was on his projections about GM Europe going out of business four years ago . |
| 7 | He was carrying his billhook and was dressed as he was on that last dreadful autumn afternoon , a singlet stained with his sweat , the shorts high cut , showing as he walked the bulge of the scrotum , the white legs , matted with black hair from the knees down . |
| 8 | As brilliant as he was on the course , so he was anonymous off it . |
| 9 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 10 | We caught him as he was on his way to pick up a faulty music amplifier he was getting fixed . |
| 11 | However , prospects for the restoration of calm appeared to be jeopardized by the arrest by Georgian police on Jan. 30 of Torez Kolumbegov , chair of the South Ossetia regional soviet , reportedly as he was on his way to talks with Georgian leaders . |
| 12 | William Mullen , who worked with Beattie in the Lanarkshire Steel works , is as convinced today of Geordie 's innocence as he was on the morning the police arrived there to arrest Beattie . |
| 13 | A 16-year-old youth is in hospital with serious head injuries after an accident as he was on his way to school . |
| 14 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy is fighting for life in Walton Hospital today after being hit by a van as he was on his way to school . |
| 15 | The police driver shot Jamie a look of enquiry which he missed , occupied as he was with guiding Miss Williams back up the hill . |
| 16 | Michelet was now reinstated , and indeed elevated during this crisis to ‘ Father Michelet ’ , faced as he was with a father painfully unwilling to advise him . |
| 17 | She was as individualistic as Rokovssky , as much in love with her own competence as he was with his . |
| 18 | In my view the trial judge , dealing as he was with a most difficult and distressing case under the necessity to give a decision immediately , did not sufficiently take into account the degree of pressure required to constitute undue influence in the case of a patient in the position of Miss T. I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that there is abundant evidence which would justify this court in coming to the conclusion that she was subjected to the undue influence of her mother which vitiated her decision . |
| 19 | The other cause of the present crisis was Ben , a man of few principles , whose only view of life was through the bottom of a tankard , riddled as he was with guilt and arrogance . |
| 20 | Busy as he was with college duties and with exceptional writing obligations , many of them with journalistic deadlines , he was always accessible to undergraduates and to old members , particularly his ex-pupils . |
| 21 | When he refers to Montagu as ‘ the Assyrian ’ and his Queen Anne 's Gate house as ‘ the silken tents of Shem ’ , he was not being jealous or even anti-semitic , but complacently and affectionately mocking of Montagu , of whom he was almost as fond as he was of Venetia . |
| 22 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 23 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |
| 24 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 25 | Fond as he was of aquatints and textured design , colour rarely entered his commentary vocabulary . |
| 26 | ‘ I think , ’ she added , ‘ that your father wants to be as proud of you as he was of your moth-er . |
| 27 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 28 | Memet did not contradict her , for , fond as he was of her , he had no intention of marrying her . |
| 29 | As proud of his Keighley ancestry on both sides as he was of his ‘ liberal principles ’ , he claimed that his ancestors had fought at Flodden . |
| 30 | I also join him in paying tribute to Alick Buchanan-Smith who was a personal friend of mine , as he was of so many , and who was an outstanding parliamentarian and Minister , and to the courage of George Buckley . |