Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much better than the copy that I had made , which as I said was this miniature sideways thatched farmhouse there in the right margin . |
| 2 | And that as far as I know is that . |
| 3 | The man as I say is all Raskolnikov . |
| 4 | BEATRIX : You ca n't , so long as you remain as pig-headed as you have been all your life . |
| 5 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 6 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 7 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 8 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 9 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 10 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 11 | Sebastian and I began to feel as close as we had been all those years ago . |
| 12 | So they 'd better be nice seeing as we 've been all the way |
| 13 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 14 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 15 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 16 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 17 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 18 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 19 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 20 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 21 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 22 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 23 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 24 | To shut his eyes as he rode was another . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |