Example sentences of "as he [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As brilliant as he was on the course , so he was anonymous off it . |
| 2 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 3 | William Mullen , who worked with Beattie in the Lanarkshire Steel works , is as convinced today of Geordie 's innocence as he was on the morning the police arrived there to arrest Beattie . |
| 4 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |
| 5 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 6 | Uncle Bill as he was at the age of twenty-eight over seventy years ago . |
| 7 | Angry as he was at the directors for failing to appreciate his talents and not understanding what he was driving at , Dustin was angrier with himself for losing jobs . |
| 8 | As fit as he was at the Wychwood Forest Fair . |
| 9 | He knows all the villagers personally , and is as indispensable to me as he was to the previous twenty-seven Humanitarian Officers . |
| 10 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |
| 11 | I rang the bell , bashed the knocker and rattled the letter box since this was guaranteed to provoke a tirade of the ‘ noisy young bastard ’ variety from Toby , who was probably in an irritable state , stranded as he was between the lunchtime and the early evening session . |
| 12 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |
| 13 | It is even possible that Mr Soros is as wrong about gold as he was about the 1987 stockmarket crash , when he lost something like $100m . |
| 14 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Tooting was as wrong about the number of homeless as he was about the number of rough sleepers . |
| 16 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 17 | Writing as he was in the 1930s , he expressed his pleasure at the extensive documentation and reference material available to the student of art , instancing the growth of libraries and art historical teaching . |
| 18 | Patrick is a lord of language , as he was in the previous novel . |
| 19 | Certainly he was never again to be as actively interested in the company as he was in the late 1940s . |
| 20 | It is assumed that Mr Cojuangco would then become chairman of San Miguel , as he was in the Marcos days . |
| 21 | Arthur Scargill is just as much the devil incarnate to the true blue supporter now as he was in the front line at Orgreave Colliery . |
| 22 | as he was in the ring , and why not , |
| 23 | So long as he was in the limelight , he could n't be attacked or abducted . |
| 24 | And Hotspur was restive with his new ally 's counsel , wise though it might be , as he was in the company of the new ally himself , however often proved the wilier tactician . |
| 25 | This put me second in the section behind Keith who had 20lb , and as he was in the main money I won the £100 section prize by default . |
| 26 | From up here he had a panoramic view over a large part of the course and as he was in the last row could see behind as well as forward . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's illegal , ’ said Malpass , but as he was in the back of Armstrong I could n't see if he was serious or not . |
| 28 | need to re-look at how we Because he 's mentioned straight away , as soon as he was in the mire |
| 29 | Directing the building of what appeared to be a large fortification , Ross was clearly enjoying himself as he laughed and joked with the children , as perfectly at ease in these casual , unsophisticated surroundings as he was in the cosmopolitan offices of a smart City boardroom . |
| 30 | I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them . |