Example sentences of "as it was [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much in the book that will be as new an exciting for most readers , as it was for me . |
| 2 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 3 | " It was as hard for me to keep quiet as it was for them , " Brown Owl , Mrs Sheila Scott , told the Southampton and District WWF Group Chairman , Geoffrey Cockrell , when he went along to one of their cheerful , noisy meetings in July to receive a cheque for WWF . |
| 4 | The demob was as slow for them as it was for us . |
| 5 | It reminded me yet again that our captivity was as much of a strain for them as it was for us , here in Lebanon . |
| 6 | He offered no words , though he thought words within , in the Welsh tongue , which had been native to her as it was to him . |
| 7 | That thorny subject , if he but knew it , was as painful to her as it was to him . |
| 8 | My meal was obviously not as important to him as it was to me . |
| 9 | She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man . |
| 10 | It must have been as clear to him as it was to her that Jeff , most definitely , was n't acting . |
| 11 | Was the chemistry instantly apparent , as it was to us ? |
| 12 | ‘ Even if I had , do you think it would have been the same with them as it was with you ? ’ |
| 13 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 14 | Now we come back to the Alletsons ( or Allatsons ) mentioned in the legend as it was from them the Herberts acquired the property . |