Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 2 | I had a most interesting conversation about Italian opera with a waiter called Giovanni , who was as enthusiastic as me about Verdi . |
| 3 | Her name was Nellie and she was in the same class as me at school and her family had not long moved into the neighbourhood . |
| 4 | Was anyone else as terrified as me at the prospect of the Scum getting the team of the year award last night ? |
| 5 | Well his name was , a very brilliant man , well w he 'd be nearly as old as me of course . |
| 6 | Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean |
| 7 | ‘ That is , if you do n't mind being in the same room as me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 8 | It improved when I made this close friend , who had some of the same ideas as me on things like sex , drugs , politics , music . |
| 9 | Once you 've lost as much money as me on the horses — then you come and give me a sermon on gambling , all right ? ’ |
| 10 | Columbus in this bitter dream makes Isabella see the truth at last , makes her accept that her need for him is as great as his for her . |
| 11 | Dropping litter might also be linked with the kind of ceremonial spitting and pee-ing that is a demonstration of claim of territory ( old men sitting on bench at village square or park etc. seem to spit a lot/ the marvellous wide-astride attitude of the countryside pee-er claiming that bit of ground as his for that glorious moment — I am aware it 's different for ladies , but maybe the same mentally , given that fright of discovering be removed ! ) . |
| 12 | The common duty of care does not impose on an occupier any obligation to a visitor in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by the visitor … |
| 13 | Section 1(6) states : No duty is owed by virtue of this section to any person in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by that person ( the question of whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another ) . |
| 14 | if he let's join in the K , you , your lad had the same problem as I with John . |
| 15 | " Senator and Madame Sherman , I am highly honoured to welcome such a distinguished family as yours to French Indochina , " he said , speaking sonorously in his own language . |
| 16 | As yours for several years |
| 17 | I can assure you that my concern for Svend is as great as yours for Suzie , and I 'm not going to allow you to wriggle out of your commitments because , rightly or wrongly , your lover does n't trust you out of his sight . ’ |
| 18 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 19 | Which it is , of course , as you of all people know . ’ |
| 20 | He 's almost as good as you on a horse ! |
| 21 | Just the same as you with the other game . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's nothing wrong with where I live , ’ she halted in her tracks to tell him shortly , ‘ except , as you at once realised , ’ she inserted loftily , ‘ that the mortgage is beyond my means . |
| 23 | How does it change the meaning or effect on the text , as far as you as a reader can tell ? |
| 24 | It 's a little thing , like a boy , about the same size as you in fact . ’ |
| 25 | And fell more and more in love with you , be it lunching with you , or dining with you , watching your innocent pleasure as you in turn watched the astronomical clock strike the hour . |
| 26 | The novel opens with the sentence : ‘ I shall soon be quite redundant at last despite of all , as redundant as you after queue and as totally predictable , information-content zero ’ ( 5 ) . |
| 27 | Never ! 'Cos I would die of shame if I retaliated and hit back ; and I would , because I 've levelled men almost as big as you before today , and you know it . ’ |
| 28 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 29 | You can say it as loud as you like Jo . |
| 30 | If he was as surprised as she at what amounted to an invitation to share her meal , then he did not show it , but said merely , ‘ Want me to lay the table ? ’ |