Example sentences of "as i [verb] [pron] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I only saw it open a few times but as far as I remember there were a couple of old ledgers and a stack of pocket files . ’
2 So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help .
3 So because it er as I said it was a relief to her i were a relief to us as children because then we were n't living in in terror of him coming home and you know causing the bother .
4 Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time .
5 I heard his name mentioned once … but as I said there was no coverage really .
6 Er as I say they were a U K company .
7 I do n't think they could say anything , as I say there was no hosepipe ban then anyway so
8 Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember .
9 But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best .
10 Windsfield and along that way to get to Bloxwich is n't it , and of course it used to , as I say it was an event , and the kids used to , we used to and then the lamplighter used to come round , pushing his pole , no electric lamps then , he used to come round .
11 Erm as I say he was a he was brilliant man er I mean we all we I 'm about one of the last of the ones that were taught under him .
12 But as I say he was the most conscientious removal man and after two years when he came in he was so upset .
13 Lady , as I recall there was no question of giving in on either side .
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