Example sentences of "as [pers pn] was at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 2 | In 1963 came the signing of the Anglo-French agreement to build Concorde ( or ‘ Concord ’ as it was at first spelled in Britain ) , and the video faithfully traces it right back to the earliest days of its conception . |
| 3 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 4 | Having followed P C and P C as he was at that time through the door , I went immediately to the bedroom on the right hand side , the second bedroom . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1930s , Ernest Bevin was the dominant figure on this body as he was at Labour Party conferences , shaping Labour 's domestic and foreign policy . |
| 6 | But as he was at first without a seat in Parliament and in any event left almost immediately for extended duty in the United States , he was unable either to galvanize or to discharge any of the traditional functions of his office . |