Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 2 | For all those who scoffed at the idea of my mastering anything complex like Excel , I 'm pleased to say that I 've bought my first copy , and it 's nothing like as hard as I thought . |
| 3 | I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside . |
| 4 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 5 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 6 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 7 | ROS : Oh no — we 've been spinning coins for as long as I remember . |
| 8 | Now for those of us that have been slightly biased by the dubiously titled ‘ Warehouse Raves ’ compilations that Rumour have been responsible for in the past , well we can not sit up and take note , because here comes their most exciting release for as long as I care to remember ( sorry Rumour ! ) . |
| 9 | Your father has extended to me the hospitality of his house for as long as I care to take it , or until he grows sick of the sight of me . |
| 10 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 11 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 12 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 13 | ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’ |
| 14 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 16 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 17 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 18 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know why I kept them for as long as I did . |
| 20 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 21 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 22 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 23 | Although er er physically on my right I I think their policies , in so far as I glean they have any , er are most definitely far from the right . |
| 24 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 25 | But in so far as I achieve awareness from your viewpoint I feel the pull towards your goals , and even when I resist , I do so very much as I push away inclinations of my own which are dangerous to my long-term ambitions ; a choice between your goals and mine belongs among my choices of ends . |
| 26 | In so far as I did understand it , I welcome his commitment of the Labour party to the Trident programme . |
| 27 | I have my eye on the subject ; the hon. Lady 's point is well taken and , in so far as I have control over these matters , I shall make certain that local authorities concentrate as much of their resources on local sport and recreation provision as they should . |
| 28 | In so far as I understand the logic here , heterosexual sodomy is surrogate homosexuality and homosexual sodomy is surrogate heterosexuality — or rather surrogate heterosexual incestuous genital intercourse . |
| 29 | But the ability to produce such phrases does not constitute communicative competence in so far as I understand the concept ( Widdowson 1978 , 1979 , 1983 , 1984a , 1989 ) , or as discussed in , for example , Canale and Swain 1980 , and Bachman 1990 . |
| 30 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |