Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design . |
| 2 | Nobody speaks as well as you do . ’ |
| 3 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 4 | ‘ But somebody who cares as much as you do , you 'd want to know . ’ |
| 5 | She runs as hard as she can from any situation where conflict may arise . |
| 6 | " I 've sent her to bed , " Sara said , " She works too hard as it is , for an old woman her age , " |
| 7 | Everything works so well as it is . |
| 8 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it fits as well as it ever will . |
| 10 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 11 | It is not the people who break the pattern of the Numbers stories , but God , for he responds almost exactly as he did at Meribah before . |
| 12 | The distinction is arbitrary and it varies very greatly as we move across the map . |
| 13 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |
| 14 | He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ? |
| 15 | It is simply what presents itself to Moose as the truth when he reflects as carefully as he can , and what he therefore expects to present itself likewise to others . |
| 16 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 17 | He knows as well as we do that there is no guarantee that all the purchases will be made by buy-out teams which , as he said , may reasonably not be expected to reduce the quality of their pension schemes . |
| 18 | He knows as well as I do that , like the assisted places scheme , they are another step towards privatisation of the education system . |
| 19 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 20 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |