Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
2 | I would like to thank the following women for their support and encouragement as I was writing this piece : Anne Collins , Linda Stepulvage , Tricia Darragh and Lisa Hunt . |
3 | In fact a new study , by Merchant ( 1989 ) , was published as I was drafting this section . |
4 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
5 | If someone said , Okay nitric acid and calcium hydroxide. as long as you were using this chart to work out which are single negative and double negative , what 's going to happen to that one ? |
6 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |