Example sentences of "as [pers pn] were [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | There was no reply to the phone , but as we were going that way to spend the night at Sandspit , we called at the neighbours ’ and found that Pat was away for a few days . |
| 3 | Beyond Postojna the roads became increasingly worse , twisting and turning as we went through at Janene on the Croatian border where it was explained that we would have to pay a reduced fee ( as we were carrying humanitarian goods ) of 13DM in order to acquire the appropriate papers to allow us to enter Croatia . |
| 4 | As they were denied Christian burial the hands proceeded to assume a life of their own . |
| 5 | They had refused to pay the toll as they were delivering humanitarian aid . |
| 6 | The Palestinians were fighting their way forward — as they were to do many times in the future — in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the first thing that 's the first thing to bear in mind , the first thing to bear in mind of course is had our previous proposals in other years been accepted Mr Mayor we would need it as it were to make these cuts from this year . |