Example sentences of "as he [was/were] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chaca had even spray painted his tag ‘ Chaca ’ on the inside of the lift as he was leaving the criminal court building after being convicted of defacing public property . |
| 2 | Well if you 're gon na get the bottom of the garden where you 're downhill it 's not too bad but when you 're coming up here and doing as he was watering the new grass on the front he he I mean yes he is below it it 's the bottom of your storage tank in c in the attic which counts . |
| 3 | ‘ The patient received the same amount of air as he was given the previous week . |
| 4 | He would have asked her to sit down but as he was occupying the only chair in the room he could n't . |
| 5 | For Chiang was so concerned to weaken the power of the Chinese Communists , who had established their own government in northern China , as he was to defeat the Japanese invaders ( AA , pp. 55–6 ) . |
| 6 | Tammuz managed to catch Roirbak just as he was making the finishing touches to his evening regalia : black , matt silk suit with thread-wide yellow pinstripe , understated gold adornments , I-Ching earrings . |