Example sentences of "as it was it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 2 | For had they ruled that a free pardon did quash a conviction , then Waddell 's defence of impeachment , i.e. that Meehan and not he had committed the crime , would have collapsed ; as it was it was greatly strengthened . |
| 3 | She glanced around at the house , she would lose her home ; entailed as it was it would pass to the next male heir of the family . |
| 4 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 5 | As it was it took nearly a hundred men to pull him out . |
| 6 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 7 | Well that 's what I said you know it 's just the same as it was it 's not |
| 8 | As it was it was finished , as you can see on your map , after the war , erm but perhaps you can also see that Tom Tower is not yet built on yours . |