Example sentences of "was [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill asked Mcduff , the only person in Nettles who had made friends with him , why this was so as they were throwing stones into the water from the dormitory window . |
| 2 | As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside . |
| 3 | In Burke 's view , which was orthodox in his time , this was entirely as it should be . |
| 4 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 5 | It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street . |
| 6 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |
| 7 | It was only as you grew older I began to wonder . |
| 8 | It was only as I read your article that I realised my husband had n't been receiving an allowance for a dependant — me ! |
| 9 | It was only as I rapped on the open door of his office that I realized the plan was upside down . |
| 10 | She found it easy : to begin with , she found everything easy , as her memory for facts was remarkable , and it was only as she grew older that she began to notice in herself slight doubts about her ability to pursue higher physics and mathematics . |
| 11 | It was only as she was heading out into the road that she raised her eyes to the rear-view mirror . |
| 12 | Yet it was only as she was getting Emily ready for school next morning that she forced herself to come to a decision . |
| 13 | By the time she arrived , still wrestling with this dramatic rearrangement of the stars in the family constellation , she had the beginnings of a bad headache , and it was only as she turned into the drive and saw the lights and heard voices and music spilling from the house that she thought about the party that was still , clearly , very much in progress . |
| 14 | It was only as she reached the small turning leading to the patio that she stopped , a momentary apprehension bringing goose-pimples to her skin . |
| 15 | It took a great mental effort to move and go upstairs to change ; even then , she had to keep her mind blank , and it was only as she cooked the evening meal , every action mechanical , that she thought clearly again . |
| 16 | It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she had n't thanked him for walking her home . |
| 17 | It was only as his eyes closed and he drifted into sleep that Corbett realised the wine must have been lightly laced with a sleeping potion . |
| 18 | This was terrible ; he was exactly as she had envisaged . |
| 19 | Seen from the rear , the house was exactly as she had described it , square and imposing with a flight of elegant stone steps leading down onto the grass . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The room was exactly as she 'd left it — shoes in the middle of the floor , the overall she wore for doing the bedrooms thrown over the back of the chair . |
| 22 | The control room was exactly as she had left it . |
| 23 | His mouth was exactly as she remembered it , with the well-defined lips , just full enough to give an unexpectedly sensual outline . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She knew someone 's shaking hands were on Damian 's tie , pulling it loose , pushing his dark blue jacket to the floor , but they could n't be her hands — she would n't do such a thing ; and as their hoarse breathing mingled further she realised his shirt was completely unbuttoned and that she was staring at his bare chest and it was exactly as she had known it would be . |
| 26 | It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be , and in its terrible way it was apt . |
| 27 | He was exactly as I remembered him , that June night after our fishing . |
| 28 | When he opened the door and tuned on the light , everything was exactly as he remembered it . |
| 29 | The voice , with its timbre of upper-class arrogance , an arrogance of which its owner so often seems unaware , was exactly as he would have expected . |
| 30 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |