Example sentences of "[is] [verb] as [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , say , he borrows £5,000 three times , repaying it each time , he is treated as severely as someone who borrows £15,000 outright . |
| 2 | If she meant to make us nervous , she 's succeeded as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 3 | ‘ It is curious that he is dying as picturesquely as he lived , ’ wrote Mr Gosse . |
| 4 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 5 | The new school is drawn as irresistibly as its predecessors to the great central mystery about Mary , her involvement in the murder of Darnley . |
| 6 | If it is to function as well as it possibly can , the body has several basic needs — nutrition , exercise , relaxation , sleep and so on — but , because of the hectic pace of twentieth century life , not enough attention is paid to ensuring that these needs are met . |
| 7 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 8 | Er , so our intention is to do as quickly as we can . |
| 9 | She is coming as far as you know ? |
| 10 | There is an old saying that whipping a donkey will do no good if it 's running as fast as it can . |
| 11 | Decorated accounts for illustrated , pictures , patterns , colours , you filled in all the space , that 's illustrated as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 12 | Yesterday , however , a senior adviser to Mr Izetbegovic said after a government meeting : ‘ The boycott is finished as far as we are concerned . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The preliminary examination is finished as far as I am concerned … ’ |
| 14 | At the moment Ian is playing as well as he has ever played in my time at Carrow Road . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He has another season-and-a-half on his contract , and if he 's playing as well as he is now , we will definitely sit down and talk about a new deal . |
| 16 | Nor those dreadful factory hooters , Mr Colclough 's from the foundry , Mr Lord 's answering it , her husband 's from the top of the hill , Ben Braithwaite 's intruding as stridently as his mother 's purple taffeta dresses from the other side of town , each one of them blasting out its five minute warning as to the pains and penalties of being late . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's hammering as violently as mine , ’ he whispered shakily . |