Example sentences of "as [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As befitted a resurrection , Surkov looked shattered . |
| 2 | In Tsarist Russia , two different traditions stood side by side , as befitted a country straddling two continents . |
| 3 | As befitted a man who had sung the pleasures of the ordinary , it occurred on a bus going up Headington Hill , on his way back to Mrs Moore 's house . |
| 4 | As befitted a man who had been an assistant professional in his youth he had great sympathy for those afflicted by golf mania . |
| 5 | Topaz had pictured her as tall and brawny as befitted a martinet . |
| 6 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |
| 7 | It should have been cold and raining as befitted a funeral . |
| 8 | Mr Ford , as befitted an engineer , possessed a methodical nature ; he made a careful scrutiny of the sepoy encampment and noted on an improvised map the location of various groups and regiments ; he also came to deduce , by painstakingly observing the arrival and departure of ammunition carts , the position of the main sepoy magazine . |
| 9 | As befitted an earth sign , Taurus was made of clay , a sturdy little bull comically smelling a floret of clover . |
| 10 | They may be as bit a leap forward as the original K-SB3 . |
| 11 | There will be no jam on your bread today if you so much as lay a finger — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
| 13 | Investigations carried out by ILEA in the 1960s tended to bear out this anxiety ( Little , 1975 ) , as did a variety of other surveys ( for a useful review see Tomlinson , 1983 , pp. 27–59 ) . |
| 14 | Mrs Cynthia Jarrett died during a police search of her home in October 1985 , as did a five-year-old boy , John Shorthouse , when a police gun went off accidentally during a search of his home . |
| 15 | Students from Tibet studying in the capital held a brief demonstration against the Han Chinese treatment of their nation and people , as did a group of Uighurs from Xinjiang province . |
| 16 | This came to naught , however , as did an all-steel version , the Model 23 or G8N3 . |
| 17 | A group describing itself as the " Iraqi national opposition " called on Feb. 19 for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein , as had a communiqué issued on Jan. 28 by the Islamic opposition in Iraq . |
| 18 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |