Example sentences of "as [pron] be [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum .
2 I knew she was just as scared as I was when we heard the cat on the stairs .
3 I 'VE never been so moved before as I was when I saw on TV the rescue of a boy who had collapsed on his way to a feeding centre in Somalia .
4 As long as I 'm not I said , Are you sure it 's not going to be too late , cos I 'll be forty five minutes .
5 ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you .
6 But as soon as she was out I dashed like a bulldozer through these other boys and dashed out into the bottom of the yard where there was a a certain little building in the bottom of the yard , and I opened the door , and there was Miss sitting on the throne .
7 As I left , if you remember , you were kind enough to invite me to get in touch with you at once if I had any problems , and as soon as we were outside I suggested to the young man that I should indeed wait and continue our talk at some later point in the morning .
8 ‘ It was great , the letters were just as they were when we received them . ’
9 In a smaller stadium they will not be so passionate as they were when they beat the Americans in the final . ’
10 Kipling 's rooms and study are left as they were when he wrote many of his best known works .
11 I must confess I was as curious as they were so I kept an eye on the cottage to see who came .
12 I I 'm happy to serve as long as it is n't you know , I mean I I ca n't give a lot of time because er my time 's so committed .
13 I said and there 's there 's me panicking like I said I said I 'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about
14 The house is much as it was when he lived there .
15 Another day , another theatre , but the enthusiasm is just as strong as it was when he started as a raw Liverpudlian with his group the Pacemakers .
16 It was a home that the great prophet of Gothic designed for himself and his family , and today it is still as strange and startling as it was when he built it around 1835 .
17 His campaigning manner today is much the same as it was when he set out three weeks ago to seek his coveted mandate .
18 I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there .
19 I chose housing as my theme for the Dimbleby Lecture , and I enunciated a belief which is as firm today as it was when I delivered it :
20 So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at
21 Were n't on the phone for as long as he is when he rung you here was he ?
22 The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College .
23 The refugees were the same age as he was when he escaped from East Germany 37 years ago .
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