Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [adj] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need n't worry ’ — he was getting happy now , preening his face with his tiny hands — ‘ this conversation we 've had will remain just as confidential as anything you may say to him . |
| 2 | She had been working with IMP for just under a year now and had managed to contribute significantly to their joint effort , so she did n't feel quite as inadequate as she had when she first joined them . |
| 3 | ‘ I know I look a complete wreck , ’ answered Felicity Suvarov with a mischievous gleam in her remarkable eyes , ‘ but I do n't feel quite as bad as I look . ’ |
| 4 | It 's still not perfect , but I do n't feel half as hindered as I used to … ' |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have to look up his real name ; everybody calls him ‘ Baffetti ’ because of his moustache which in my opinion makes him look just as shifty as he is . |
| 6 | And in the Muslim world , among people at large , the war may become ever more unpopular as it looks increasingly punitive and costly in terms of Arab life . |
| 7 | ‘ Now that Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole have stopped drinking , they do n't look nearly as robust as they used to . |
| 8 | And yet , they could never become as truly professional as their colleagues in other disciplines , since ‘ literature ’ did not belong in the academy and was not generated there , though criticism and scholarship might be . |
| 9 | But Ace could see that she did n't sound or look as totally convinced as her words . |
| 10 | Is it that some of your shots do not look as pictorially attractive as they might ? |
| 11 | erm and realise that no you do n't sound quite as bad as you think you might . |
| 12 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 13 | She did n't look quite as natty as she usually does ! |
| 14 | So on the FGM all three have been countersunk by an extra few mm , meaning that the pickup mounting rings sit flush with the body , which does n't look half as odd as you 'd imagine . |
| 15 | if you hit something twice as big to what you 're hitting it 'll go twice as fast as it does with a snooker ball . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 17 | Reversion to order can occur ; systems do not necessarily get progressively more disordered as one goes further beyond a first instability . |
| 18 | Until then my writing to you , my own sweet little one , must taste even as harsh as my conversation and look now are … |