Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guaranteed to work , as everyone around here knew , after the death of that other girl , Olympia . ’ |
| 2 | Above all , the principle that the Duke of Westminster should pay the same tax as someone on below average earnings , despite relief for the very poor , was simply unacceptable to a wide spectrum of the electorate . |
| 3 | It 's the same size as yours up to the wardrobe and up to the door . |
| 4 | The object of the exercise is for Vitelli doubly to substitute himself for Clara 's father : first as her husband , then as himself in , and as the father of , her son . |
| 5 | Is Anderson using the word ‘ random ’ in its mathematical sense , as one out of a series , or in its statistical sense in which each item has an individual chance ? |
| 6 | As far as one off |
| 7 | Thousands of them looked down now as something round and shiny drifted around the Earth . |
| 8 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 9 | soon as everybody down found out , they go like that , ‘ Oh , come on then ’ , you know , started saying it every time they see me , you know . |
| 10 | He kept telling himself that he was as good as anyone around . |
| 11 | ‘ As anyone around here will tell you ’ he explains in that considered , Jimmy Stewart drawl of his , ‘ I hate wearin' suits . ’ |
| 12 | I work with her , and I 'm about as close to her as anyone around here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ As anyone around here will tell you ’ he explains in that considered , Jimmy Stewart drawl of his , ‘ I hate wearin' suits . ’ |
| 14 | BLISSFUL FLOWING , butter-melting hypnotism from Ramin , emphasised with all manner of swirling effects and a rumbler of a bassline and as trancey as anything down our end of the road . |