Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] as [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I naturally charged him as little as possible but the money he earned went on other things — fresh meat from the butcher , extra milk and biscuits . |
| 2 | Detroit , Michigan-based Compuware says the deal will enable it to release CICS fault diagnosis products the same time as new IBM CICS releases , so giving it as much as a three-month lead over its rivals . |
| 3 | He knew the cruelty she was going to witness over the next three months would be agony for her because , for some reason , she trusted animals far more than humans , but , like a nurse looking after animals in a vivisection clinic , he could n't prevent her pain , only alleviate it as much as possible . |
| 4 | I 'm still not enjoying it as much as I should . |
| 5 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 6 | But he had not missed it as much as he 'd thought he might . |
| 7 | ‘ If a girl returns it to you , good and well ; though a jeweller will not give you as much as you paid for it . |
| 8 | ‘ But because they were so busy with their business , he did not see them as much as he wished . |
| 9 | And when the press come bothering , just tell them as little as you need . |
| 10 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 11 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 12 | And he 'd never tell us , he , he 'd never , he 'd always tell us as much as he thought we could accept . |
| 13 | No one could possibly love her as much as he did . |
| 14 | He knew then that she still wanted him as much as he wanted her . |
| 15 | He did n't love her as Lowell loved her , but he probably loved her as much as he was capable of loving anyone . |
| 16 | Do n't think I 'm being bitchy if I say that Stephen probably resents him as much as he admires him . |
| 17 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 18 | Are you very friendly with him , or do you really despise him as much as you say ? ’ |
| 19 | Surely the cross did n't hurt him as much as our unfaithfulness can . |
| 20 | He knew the machine like an old friend ( it would probably be the personality he 'd miss most ) , but he still could n't trust it as much as he trusted himself . |
| 21 | Do n't like them as much as cornflakes . ’ |
| 22 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 23 | I just realised I did n't like him as much as I thought , that 's all . |
| 24 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
| 25 | But they do n't see you as much as his secretary does either do they ? |
| 26 | What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth . |
| 27 | You could argue it was n't his fault that Clare was killed — or that she did n't love me as much as I loved her — and I 'd have to agree . |
| 28 | School and university still had n't changed me as much as they had ; maybe even the rest of my life could never compensate for their formative effect . |
| 29 | Strangely , the prospect did n't frighten him as much as daily living did . |
| 30 | Morning Star devotes its front page to the collapse of capitalism in Tokyo , a development which does n't cheer me as much as it might once have done . |