Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [was/were] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 3 | But perhaps I was as oblivious at school as I was at home to the sneers or the impatience of others . |
| 4 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | as I was at my bedroom window |
| 7 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 8 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You got as far as you were at the wedding |
| 11 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 12 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 13 | The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time . |
| 14 | The soft beauty of their symmetrical curves , and the sinuous outlines , accentuated as they were at morning and evening by the glancing rays of the sun , provided an artistry one could not readily forget ; and I shall long remember the delicate rosy flush , reflected for a moment from the smooth sand surfaces , as the radiance of the sunset dwindled and died like a funeral pyre . ’ |
| 15 | For the press the facilities were as basic as they were at the hotel . |
| 16 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 17 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |
| 18 | The sharpest criticisms of this approach have been made — as they were at the time — from extreme left-wing but non-Stalinist positions . |
| 19 | They are thus almost as dear as they were at the end of 1989 , when the p/e ratio peaked at 18 before a nearly successful coup sank the stockmarket and all who sailed in her . |
| 20 | Until very recently , married women were unable to draw the allowance for the care of invalid relatives because it was assumed that they would do that anyway as they were at home all the time , despite the fact that two-thirds of married women work . |
| 21 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 22 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 23 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 24 | In civil defence terms the Scud attacks , directed as they were at civilian populations , posed a dilemma for the Israeli authorities as it was not known in advance whether the missiles would carry conventional or chemical warheads . |
| 25 | Shaikh Hamad 's observation that borders within the Arab world should remain as they were at independence was , however , interpreted as an indication of Bahrain 's continued claim to the islands . |
| 26 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 27 | ‘ Seven or eight hundred years of sewers , underground rivers , tunnels , and nobody knows where half of them are until they 're excavating or making changes , as they were at the Priory . |
| 28 | Miracles were reported at his tomb as they were at the burial place of Richard Scrope , Archbishop of York , who was beheaded in 1405 and whose popularity as a saintly defender of Church freedoms against the usurpation of secular authority rivalled that of Thomas of Canterbury . |
| 29 | Thus s27 of the Partnership Act states : ( 1 ) Where a partnership entered into for a fixed term is continued after the term has expired , and without any express new agreement , the rights and duties of the partners remain the same as they were at the expiration of the term , so far as is consistent with the incidents of a partnership at will . |
| 30 | The tenant may wish to dispense with 7.6.3 , 7.6.4 , 7.6.5 and 7.6.6 and add the following proviso to 7.6.2 : If for any reason the premises and all other relevant parts of the centre sufficient for the Tenant [ or any undertenant ] to carry on its [ or their ] normal trade and business including the means of access to the Premises and all essential services therein and thereto shall not be reinstated in accordance with the provisions of this clause as they were at the date of the relevant destruction or damage by the second anniversary of the date of the destruction or damage the Tenant may thereafter determine the Term by giving not less than one month 's notice to the Landlord and upon expiry of such notice the Term shall cease but without prejudice to the claim of either party for any earlier breach of covenant by the other This will doubtless be resisted by the landlord who will wish to have the unilateral right to terminate . |