Example sentences of "as [pers pn] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but particularly with reference to John Major , I think he 's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote , and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him , and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and |
| 2 | You 're exactly as you were on the day we met . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The hospital asked me to let them know as soon as you were on your way . |
| 4 | You got as far as you were at the wedding |
| 5 | ‘ You are as skilful as you were with my wife , Wilson , ’ he remarked . |
| 6 | ‘ But surely he must have been almost as concerned as you were with Mr Riddle 's activities , particularly about the fields at the camping site . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , ’ he ground out , ‘ were you as clinging with him as you were with me ? ’ |
| 8 | You were as close to God in the gardens , under the big beech tree , or in the walled garden with its smell of rosemary and lemon balm , as you were in the chapel . |
| 9 | What he did n't tell us was that the boats were tied very loosely and had a disturbing tendency to drift apart as you were in the process of climbing from one to another . |
| 10 | As she were in a hurry an' it were ready I said you 'd send on t' bill . ’ |
| 11 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 13 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 14 | They beat Malvern Vale who were another erm of the promotion contenders , three nil today , so Maidenhead and ourselves are in the same relationship as we were before the game . |
| 15 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 16 | Young people whom we knew to be honest , stung as we were by the sufferings of our Fatherland , lived convinced that Cuba 's independence was a Yankee gift and that our denunciations of national oppression were simply ways of serving an idea that they considered to be ‘ anti-Cuban ’ ( ‘ Reflexiones ante un aniversario ’ , Hoy , 29 July 1959 , p. 1 , cited in Farber : 1983 , p. 61 ) . |
| 17 | On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered . |
| 18 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 19 | I should say at this point that the channel 1 ‘ clip ’ indicator on this example does n't work , although you ca n't blame the British distributors , as we were in such a rush to lay hands on the Acousticube that they did n't have time to check it ( also , pushing the Line/Mic button on channel 2 produces a large bang through the speaker ) . |
| 20 | It was not until the murderer 's long soliloquy that we were able to look around ; frozen as we were in profile , our eyes searched you out , first confidently , then hesitantly , then desperately as each patch of turf , each log , every exposed corner in every direction proved uninhabited , and all the while the murderous King addressed the horizon with his dreary interminable guilt … |
| 21 | Medical practitioners were only too well aware of the social differences among their patients , and hence were as much preoccupied with class as they were with gender . |
| 22 | He was at the mercy of crack-brained adults just the same as they were with crazy Sylvester . |
| 23 | Each time I 'd wondered how they carried such a heavy load : how the pine-needles even stuck together , bound as they were with a single length of rope . |
| 24 | Obsessed as they were with hygiene and cleanliness , the Corporals had been worried ever since we had arrived at Orange that some of us were not adept at emptying our bowels neatly . |
| 25 | After all , if a fellow was not allowed below waist level — and the all-in-one pantie girdle was impregnable without traitorous and lustful help from the inside — then what else was there but hours of despairing mauling of the mammaries , offered up as they were with the aid of uplift-under-wired-half-cup-sponge-rubber-lace-nylon and steel display cases . |
| 26 | Gone are the scents , colours and sounds of the meadows of the past , alive as they were with bees , butterflies , grasshoppers , frogs and voles ; gone are the wildflowers and rippling purple headed grasses . |
| 27 | He remembered the release he had felt when he had first heard the teachings of Akhenaten , which had cut away the rotten trappings of the old beliefs , festooned as they were with the cynical speculation of the priests . |
| 28 | Even the wars and internal reforms of Peter I , bitterly unpopular as they were with great masses of his people , could not eradicate the feeling that the Tsar was , in some ultimate sense , the father and protector of the ordinary Russian . |
| 29 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 30 | The months of living in close proximity to her were taking their toll , combined as they were with his previous ascetic life . |