Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] [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 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 .
9 I said to the orchestra , ‘ If there are discords we must always play them as beautifully as we know how . ’
10 ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you !
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 We did n't know her so well as we think .
14 Did n't know her so well as you did .
15 They do n't analyze it as often as we do .
16 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 .
17 They do n't like it so well as London .
18 I ca n't see it as clearly as that — and perhaps it 's better not to see clearly — ’
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 ‘ He would n't kill you so long as I 'm alive .
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