Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well none of the others looked as young as them did they ? |
| 2 | Just as everyone took it for granted that the young Scot was on the point of fulfilling the potential she had shown in the amateur game , so she stopped in her tracks . |
| 3 | Ari held Nathan 's hand as everyone greeted the dawn of the Solstice Day . |
| 4 | ‘ Lord , our Mass is over , ’ the choir sang in sweet , lilting voices as everyone walked down the hill into town once more . |
| 5 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 6 | Teachers were government employees , as everyone knew , but nobody called them servants . |
| 7 | The main complaint was that the whole thing was a fraud , which could be proved because , as everyone knew … leprechauns canna write ! |
| 8 | The afternoon had been declared a local holiday , as everyone knew , and it would be a fitting finale to the year 's thoroughbred racing programme at Assiniboia Downs . |
| 9 | Had he not , as everyone knew , single-handedly raised and led an Arab army against the Turks ? |
| 10 | The BBC planned to give the film a third airing on what would have been the admiral 's eightieth birthday , and when this became known we were approached by Lord Brabourne , Mountbatten 's son-in-law , to say that his cousin Prince Charles who , as everyone knew , adored his uncle , wanted to pay him a personal tribute . |
| 11 | He recalls how God visited him with sickness , as he does others , and how he suffered a ‘ wyld infirmytie ’ , as everyone knew , that ‘ me owt of my selfe cast and threw ’ . |
| 12 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 13 | If any BW officer had reservations about the project they could have phoned me on 10th or 11th June , particularly as everyone knew the work was scheduled to start on the 12th . |
| 14 | By 9.30am the campsite was buzzing with anticipation as everyone made sure that their equipment was working . |
| 15 | Yes , sea-trout had indeed returned to the murky river Cart but not via the Clyde as everyone thought . |
| 16 | And then really ‘ overdetermined ’ with Barry 's mother , Sheila , confiding her lifelong secret to Terry and Billy Corkhill that Barry 's father was not , as everyone thought , her first husband ! |
| 17 | ‘ My dear , I must tell you , so amUsing ’ , one whispers to the other , ‘ Monsieur *** de *** , FAR from being happily married as everyone thought , apparently spends the ENTIRE time when he 's in London clad in very ODD lederhosen in some pizzeria opposite the Knightsbridge barracks picking up little leather boys . ’ |
| 18 | Within seconds , it seemed , the casualty-room was full of people , all working with a kind of controlled intensity as everyone swung quietly into action . |
| 19 | ‘ Is this one of the wines you import , Mr Hepwood ? ’ she asked — and suddenly , as everyone looked a trace amused , any tension she had imagined to be there magically disappeared . |
| 20 | As everyone kept mentioning , there is even an undertaker . |
| 21 | The others , I explained , could be anywhere , as everyone had been reading them . |
| 22 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 23 | All she hoped was that her job was as secure as everyone had led her to believe . |
| 24 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 25 | Of course — as Titmuss pointed out — had the Luftwaffe launched an all-out offensive on 3 September 1939 , as everyone expected , this scenario would have come about . |
| 26 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 27 | But it was his heart , and as everyone said , you can never tell with hearts . |
| 28 | If the workhouse was as overcrowded as everyone said , then surely they 'd be only too pleased to get one inmate off their hands ? |
| 29 | It had taken her nearly ten years to do so , ‘ as everyone said that we have enough societies in Bedford already ’ . |
| 30 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |