Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ By the time we 're married , you will know me as well as you know yourself . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
4 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
7 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
8 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
9 | He thought he could mindblast her as simply as he had put Tunney out of the picture . |
10 | They do n't analyze it as often as we do . |
11 | " They could do it as well as anybody else . |
12 | Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules . |
13 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
14 | I was living up Redruth way and I used to go and see her as often as I could , because I sort of sensed she was n't all that happy . |
15 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
16 | And it should be such , drawn so strongly , that your readers will remember it as vividly as anything in any other sort of crime fiction . |
17 | And she does not hear them as well as she did once . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
20 | I 'll protect you as well as I can , my dearest love , whatever you may or may not have done ! ’ |
21 | To what er they show some of the old films like they had in them days some of these circus pictures and travel pictures Now I 'll tell you something that 's rather remarkable I 'll I 'll b tell you as briefly as I can . |
22 | And if he asks me if I 've seen you I 'll tell him as fast as I can . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Well you wan na split it as often as you can . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | I said to the orchestra , ‘ If there are discords we must always play them as beautifully as we know how . ’ |
27 | ‘ Let me put it as delicately as I can . |
28 | He would thrust and persuade it as far as he could towards an ending . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | You can ask them either just as they are or use them as a basis for formulating questions that are particularly related to the job for which you are being interviewed . |