Example sentences of "be [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were there as it happens . |
| 2 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
| 3 | ‘ Go As You Please ’ is just as it sounds , and with your unlimited 7-day bus pass and your 6 accommodation vouchers , which can be used at any of the Youth Hostels in Northern Ireland , you have the freedom to go where you want , when you want . |
| 4 | A ‘ storyline ’ is just as it sounds — a shorthand way to refer to the content of what someone says , where this has the elements of being a story — a comprehensible account of something . |
| 5 | As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside . |
| 6 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |
| 7 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 8 | A familiar scene , yet one that had changed subtly since yesterday — just as everything else had been changed by that newspaper item , the whole of her life being undermined making her feel that nothing was quite as it had seemed . |
| 9 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |