Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just as engrossed in the sport 's literature . |
| 2 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 3 | Last Friday I was there as usual with a few mates . |
| 4 | Er that 's red say there and these are painted cloths which were very popular in York for those who could n't afford tapestries which were then as now , very expensive . |
| 5 | He probably would n't be very interested in what she had to say , but at least he would be near her and she could dwell upon the handsome face which was exactly as she had remembered it . |
| 6 | In 1912 golf progressed actively and is the first year when the Captain 's Prize is mentioned , as is the Caddies ' competition , which was probably as equally impressive in the quality of golf . |
| 7 | The only place they did not appear to have penetrated was Wimbledon — which was perhaps as well , since it left Mr Malik as the sole source of information on the Malik family history . |
| 8 | The idea of biology having important lessons for control is not new , but in this case the Sheffield group would have the willing and enthusiastic support of two control engineers — Harry Nicholson and Vince Femando — who were just as excited about the prospects for collaboration as their new biological colleagues . |
| 9 | You were there as it happens . |
| 10 | But she was presumably as capable of lying as Ursula . |
| 11 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 12 | Because if she had n't done it , if she was exactly as she appeared to be — warm , vibrant , witty , and sensual — he was going to have to marry her , and he knew it . |
| 13 | So here Belinda was , with that naked feeling she always got when she looked at her wet hair and towel-draped neck under the bright lights of a salon , and she very much hoped that Faye was right about the end result looking ‘ fabulous ’ , because she was determined to show everyone at drinks this evening that she was just as soignée , just as at ease in a smart social gathering as they were . |
| 14 | It was her family that were changing , she thought : she was just as she had always been . |
| 15 | It seemed that she was right as the Allies crossed the Rhine and swept through Germany . |
| 16 | Financially , she was now as they say quite warm . |
| 17 | But as they do , it 's gon na hit her cos it 's not year that it does n't help , see if she 's in a third year class , she was always as she is now , in the top of that , but even |
| 18 | ‘ Jack Scamp is a south-of-the-river villain who was never as tough or as important as he thought he was . |
| 19 | We were together as two fools were together , Theo told him bluntly : a couple of foolish idealists . |
| 20 | Everything was just as it should be . |
| 21 | Otherwise everything was just as he remembered , even the faded yellow curtains decorated with turquoise flowers and green leaves : a relic of the 1960s . |
| 22 | In the morning , everything was just as it always was when Mother went away ; much pleasanter , with nobody quarrelling even in that dreadful quiet way of just looking and going out of rooms when other people came into them , and Gran told them several good long stories in the evening . |
| 23 | Everything was superficially as before . |
| 24 | When he opened the door and tuned on the light , everything was exactly as he remembered it . |
| 25 | Everything was exactly as it always was . |
| 26 | When he was sure everything was exactly as prescribed he got a Pan-Am bag from inside the car . |
| 27 | In the Store we knew where we were , things worked , everything was exactly as Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) decreed . |
| 28 | She accepted our brief presence with disinterested dignity — as if she herself were now as symbolically dead as her husband was still symbolically alive . |
| 29 | ‘ There was plenty as was willing , any road . |
| 30 | Failing such superhuman qualities , however , there was only as usual ordinary observation and patience , and they both seemed inadequate and tame . |