Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as i [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 2 | ‘ So long as I keep still , I feel very little . |
| 3 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
| 4 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 5 | He was sympathetic , " I do not intend " , he declared , " so far as I have any power , to allow the increase of Chinese seamen in the United Kingdom ports to be continued " . |
| 6 | Surely it can not be possible , she was thinking , to love anyone as intensely as I love this man . |
| 7 | Er , as far as I know all the forms that were allocated to me have been versioned and distributed out to everybody , so I should have lots of version forms . |
| 8 | He went back to Nuremberg in 1946 to testify , but as far as I know that 's the only time he ever left the country . ’ |
| 9 | And as far as I know that 's the only coverage I 've seen personally of it . |
| 10 | Er as far as I know that 'll be okay . |
| 11 | As far as I know that 's , that 's going out as well , erm in fact he went over to Dublin to get a bit of training erm idea in pilot . |
| 12 | Similar challenges have been organised previously in London , Canterbury etc but as far as I know this one is a ‘ first ’ for Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag . |
| 14 | Erm all the figures there are as far as I know full year effects , so there are no half year effects . |
| 15 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 16 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 18 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 19 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 20 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
| 21 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 23 | You know as well as I do that Rudolfo 's the only one involved who has a house up there . |
| 24 | They know as well as I do that it has nothing whatsoever to do with who heads a company . |
| 25 | You know as well as I do that art and commerce have walked hand in hand since at least the Renaissance . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Ellen , you know as well as I do that she can never forget me ! |
| 27 | He knows as well as I do that , like the assisted places scheme , they are another step towards privatisation of the education system . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend knows as well as I do that no Government have brought the police force to such a level as this Conservative Government have done . |
| 29 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You know as well as I do that you want me to come to your room so you can make love to me ! ’ |