Example sentences of "as [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 5 | In fact a new study , by Merchant ( 1989 ) , was published as I was drafting this section . |
| 6 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 7 | , ah no , but you , but you were n't aware of that because you were on the floor , as I was saying five minutes ago . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was a bad thing for me , strictly speaking , because the men became as they was earning more money than me and this is complete fact . |
| 12 | They had refused to pay the toll as they were delivering humanitarian aid . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sarella followed Peter outside into the courtyard as he was leaving next morning . |
| 15 | ‘ His was a very difficult job as he was helping large numbers of people in a number of different locations . ’ |
| 16 | Joe saw Tony only briefly as he was working long hours . |
| 17 | The drama happened as he was giving First Aid to rider Kevin Mitchell who had been involved in a crash but was not seriously injured . |
| 18 | ‘ Youse can be at the codding , when youse like , ’ he mumbled thickly , ‘ but if this auld one in here — ’ he tapped the coffin with his glass — ‘ if this fella wants to , I tell ye , he 'll be sittin' up as bright as ye like and be givin' us all the ‘ Lark ’ , just as he was doin' that night when — ‘ |