Example sentences of "were [verb] as [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three police cars were damaged as they effectively rammed the metro and brought it to a stop . |
| 2 | His ambitions were fulfilled as he rightly claimed that his cars won more races than any other model . |
| 3 | They were sitting as they always did when her father was home , in the large airy dining room which looked out on the stone patio where in the summer clematis bloomed white and purple . |
| 4 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |
| 5 | Moments later his suspicions were confirmed as it gradually slid open . |