Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things do n't throw me as much now . |
| 2 | Before I 'm finished you 'll want me as much as I want you . ’ |
| 3 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 4 | ‘ It wo n't make me as sick as what you have in mind , ’ she told him recklessly . |
| 5 | Oh I wonder what they 'll be like , I do n't want them as tight as those others , yeah but it 's the legs and that , those others of mine , when I got them back they were really very ti tight |
| 6 | That is why we could treat them as more Realist than the Realists . |
| 7 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 8 | Or did I buy them as odd presents for people who might like them ? |
| 9 | ‘ By the time we 're married , you will know me as well as you know yourself . |
| 10 | We erm , given that you have to do , okay , I did n't brief them as fully as I could of , and half way through I looked at it again just to make sure I had n't missed the bottom line that said , you know stand on your head instead in the park , so I just had a little read . |
| 11 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 12 | But then again , if I was forced to do them full-time permanently , maybe I would n't enjoy them as much . |
| 13 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 15 | ‘ Memory or no memory , I would n't describe you as all in one piece , exactly , after last night . ’ |
| 16 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 17 | But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said . |
| 18 | He thought he could mindblast her as simply as he had put Tunney out of the picture . |
| 19 | On 2 May 1839 Prince wrote to Gould in Australia warning him of Swainson 's impending visit : ‘ Mr. Yarrell has just called and requested me to tell you that Mr Swainson is going to Australia whether to collect or to settle is not known at present but he considered it of importance that you should know it as quickly as possible not that either he or I think it can in any way affect you as you have so good a start and his wonted and well known irregularity of publication will surely militate against him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Did you enjoy it as much as you thought you would ? ’ |
| 21 | Why fool around with money , or taking teeth out , when I might not enjoy it as much ? |
| 22 | I am about his business and must accomplish it as best I may . |
| 23 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 24 | because it was well written up in the Wine Society I would descr describe it as nice , nice but innocuous . |
| 25 | Crawford was again in a small role that commanded little attention and he could count it as more experience on the ladder to success . |
| 26 | Now , Dorothea felt justly punished , for she was merely sad , and Isabel would in any case consider it as inevitable good manners to have refused . |
| 27 | He knew the machine like an old friend ( it would probably be the personality he 'd miss most ) , but he still could n't trust it as much as he trusted himself . |
| 28 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 29 | ‘ In reporting a problem to the highway authority , ’ the booklet advises , ‘ you should give them as much information as possible about what is wrong and where — give a grid reference if you can . ’ |
| 30 | So we thought , No if we can stop them to speak to them cos at the end of the day we ca n't actually stop them going up , we can give them as much harassment as we can yes er and keep within the law . |