Example sentences of "as [pron] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |
2 | If I was on his staff , as I was during the election , you can have a lot of power — influence — because you can say , ‘ I think you should do this Prime Minister , I think you should do that . |
3 | Or am I playing some deep game , as I was with the choice of accommodation ? |
4 | ‘ Most important is to have the physical and mental strength to be as successful at the end of this season as I was at the beginning of 1990 . |
5 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
6 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
7 | I knew I would never finish a book so long as I was on the North Shore , either . |
8 | ‘ She was standing outside , on the deck overlooking the lake , as I was on the phone . |
9 | But just as I was on the point of giving up , the honking bus swerved past me . |
10 | No as as I say Doctor , I do n't Same as I was on the valium , you know |
11 | there 's a horse erm in some of the fields just coming out of Morpeth towards Newcastle and I saw , pardon me as I was on the bus like yesterday coming into Morpeth and this horse just shot out of nowhere and it was really enjoying itself ! |
12 | I walked along the road while Frankland was watching me , but as soon as I was round the corner , I went towards the hill where we had seen the boy . |
13 | When I woke up I was almost as amazed by the fair hair as I was by the sex , because both his ‘ father ’ and I are very dark . |
14 | Engaged as I was in the struggle with myself , the struggle between my self and my body , other people had no real existence for me . |
15 | Whilst I believed their feelings and actions were genuine , I was also aware that they were as steeped as I was in the romance of blindness : the helping hand , God 's purpose for us all . |
16 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
17 | You may well , for instance , be depending to a large extent on the character of the victim ( as I was in The Murder of the Maharajah ) and the least troublesome way to put that character before the reader is in direct scenes showing the future victim in action . |
18 | As long as I was in the country I was home on a Friday night and them again till Monday morning . |
19 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
20 | You 're exactly as you were on the day we met . ’ |
21 | You got as far as you were at the wedding |
22 | You were as close to God in the gardens , under the big beech tree , or in the walled garden with its smell of rosemary and lemon balm , as you were in the chapel . |
23 | What he did n't tell us was that the boats were tied very loosely and had a disturbing tendency to drift apart as you were in the process of climbing from one to another . |
24 | Contented as she was with the house , Virginia was always to cast a glance over her shoulder at her sister , living just five miles away at Charleston . |
25 | Unfamiliar as she was with the niceties of English social life , she wondered why she should be surprised . |
26 | There were still huge crowds of people hanging around the paddock , and Kate had quite a time , burdened as she was with the luggage , to push her way through . |
27 | Anxious as she was about the neighbours , she could n't help laughing as she hurried downstairs . |
28 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
29 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
30 | As soon as she was on the road she began to run . |