Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |
2 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
3 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
4 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
5 | But even the best brakes in the world will not stop you as quickly as hitting something … |
6 | And she does not hear them as well as she did once . |
7 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
8 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
9 | At lunchtime , when he read the note , he would always thank her as warmly as he could , but her mistake of taste was plainly defined in his face . |
10 | I said to the orchestra , ‘ If there are discords we must always play them as beautifully as we know how . ’ |
11 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
12 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
13 | We erm , given that you have to do , okay , I did n't brief them as fully as I could of , and half way through I looked at it again just to make sure I had n't missed the bottom line that said , you know stand on your head instead in the park , so I just had a little read . |
14 | But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said . |
15 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
16 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
17 | They do n't analyze it as often as we do . |
18 | I 've tried it to my peril a couple of times , and it really does get quite embarrassing , so that 's a difference , and of course on the grey handset , there 's a pitch control underneath as well as a volume control , okay , so they 're a bit more modern , but I do n't like these actually , because you ca n't hug them as easily as the cream ones , they just do n't sit on your shoulder . |
19 | ‘ I do n't mind anything so long as we 're safe , ’ she said . |
20 | They do n't like it so well as London . |
21 | Believing that people were always like we are , they just did n't understand themselves as well as we do , leads to dangerous historical inaccuracies . |
22 | I ca n't see it as clearly as that — and perhaps it 's better not to see clearly — ’ |
23 | Oh well , she could n't drag herself as far as the Rex . |
24 | Mummy is there and I 'd thought she was in good hands but of course I could n't visit her as often as I 'd like while earning my megamillions . |
25 | Significant quotes from players were passed on to the writers who heard , for example , that the Europeans had a " quiet " lunch after the opening foursomes , that Tony Jacklin did n't sleep too well one night , that Strange and Kite do n't hit it as far as some , that the Americans were " stunned " after the first day and that , mostly , players thought the crowds behaved reasonably well . |
26 | ‘ He would n't kill you so long as I 'm alive . |