Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 2 | I was suddenly really upset as I thought I may never feel the baby moving inside me any more . |
| 3 | Yes , , I 've never heard the er the full title before , it 's always just been er so I was so as far as I 've always heard it . |
| 4 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 5 | Being themselves so wonderfully hospitable as I have , through personal experiences . |
| 6 | But in so far as I achieve awareness from your viewpoint I feel the pull towards your goals , and even when I resist , I do so very much as I push away inclinations of my own which are dangerous to my long-term ambitions ; a choice between your goals and mine belongs among my choices of ends . |
| 7 | Your two suggested dates for apparatus sessions — 7 October 1993 and 13 January 1994 — are fine as far as I know . |
| 8 | I supposed , during those brief , heady moments after your heartbreaking apology that you had wanted to come to me tonight as much as I wanted you to come . |
| 9 | ‘ I took a bus to the border of the forbidden zone just as close as I dared , got out and saw this nice little wabi , a small valley kind of thing , and thought I 'll settle down there and take my chances . |
| 10 | ‘ Tom did just as much as I did , ’ Belinda assured her . |
| 11 | Devoted Dad : ‘ Simon loves being a parent just as much as I do ’ |
| 12 | I fancy you 've been enjoying yourself just as much as I have . ’ |
| 13 | Just as much as I disliked the lean , tanned , grinning face that he presented on the comm screen . |
| 14 | Melina Mercouri just as marvellous as I thought . |
| 15 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 16 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 17 | They are still more puzzled as I wish them good evening and they recognise my Scots accent , As I quickly follow behind the French Commandos I hear one Canadian say to the other . |
| 18 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not always as successful as I hope . |
| 20 | Nearly as much as I do , my darling , ’ she added . |
| 21 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 22 | People think I 'm silly , but I 'm not nearly as silly as I appear . |
| 23 | But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 24 | Mr , er I as so far as I got , Not impossible for development to occur with these constraints . |
| 25 | There 's so much to do and something about money , that 's about as much as I know . |
| 26 | And I think that 's probably about as much as I want to say actually about the news the news interviews . |
| 27 | you know , the houses that have just got one wall and a little , or a garage which is higher than just about as high as I think |
| 28 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 29 | ‘ I am glad , at any rate , that you do not find your position here as irksome as I had supposed . ’ |
| 30 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |