Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything was just as it should be . |
| 2 | Otherwise everything was just as he remembered , even the faded yellow curtains decorated with turquoise flowers and green leaves : a relic of the 1960s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Everything was superficially as before . |
| 5 | When he opened the door and tuned on the light , everything was exactly as he remembered it . |
| 6 | Everything was exactly as it always was . |
| 7 | When he was sure everything was exactly as prescribed he got a Pan-Am bag from inside the car . |
| 8 | In the Store we knew where we were , things worked , everything was exactly as Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) decreed . |
| 9 | A familiar scene , yet one that had changed subtly since yesterday — just as everything else had been changed by that newspaper item , the whole of her life being undermined making her feel that nothing was quite as it had seemed . |