Example sentences of "as [pron] be [verb] this [noun sg] " 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 As you are reading this leaflet , you are probably considering whether to have an HIV antibody test , as this is the only way for most people to find out whether or not they are infected with the virus that can cause AIDS .
6 They did — and still can — mean much , much more than you probably imagine as you 're putting this week 's issue together
7 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 ?
8 In the meantime , it is very pleasant , and indeed it 's salutary , to remind ourselves , as we are doing this evening , of what a university is actually about .
9 So when the Japanese cut production in a slumping market , as they are doing this year , these high overhead costs are spread over fewer chips .
10 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 .
11 ‘ For your daughter 's sake , Mrs Abberley , make sure your husband does as he is told this time .
12 ‘ For your daughter 's sake , Mrs Abberley , make sure your husband does as he is told this time .
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