Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll get better at this as I get more practice .
2 I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity .
3 If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil .
4 As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful .
5 No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago .
6 Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ .
7 But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ .
8 Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in .
9 ‘ As long as I drink some Lucozade straight away , then I 'm OK .
10 Yes , I mean , I think as far as I remember last spring was a good one was n't it ?
11 Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago !
12 By mid — 1943 it was made very clear to the Main Force Groups that their " selection " was unacceptable as I sent more crews back than we kept .
13 It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness .
14 I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames .
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