Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say someone such as myself , but I am as far as I understand the housekeeper of this house , while your father is the under-butler . ’ |
| 2 | Lake said : ‘ I was performing well and I am really disappointed as I have also had to withdraw from the doubles . |
| 3 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
| 4 | It 's another day , I have slept for more than ten hours and am now famished as I follow the smell of cooking to a spot behind the barn . |
| 5 | I think I ought to see her again — just once , to reassure myself that all the old feelings really are as dead as I believe . |
| 6 | Right now — I 've got Don and my children , I 'm as happy as I 've ever been . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm as fit as I 've ever been but I 'm lacking match practice , ’ says Kirk . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be as vulgar as I like . |
| 9 | I can be as upset as I like , I suppose ? ’ |
| 10 | I hope that it will not be as bad as I fear , but experience of the National Bus Company in England and Wales shows that it was worse than we feared . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not going to be as bad as I think ’ |
| 12 | It might not be as soft as I 've led Richie to believe . ’ |
| 13 | He says I have to go twice as far , to go round the car , and it can be quite dangerous as I have to go into the road . |
| 14 | But to be quite truthful as I 've said to the boys , when I 'm away all this is lost . |
| 15 | Right , I 'll deal with this one I I 'll deal with this one and be very careful as I say . |
| 16 | Wilko wo n't be too happy as I think he would have told them by now it 's kick first and ask questions later . |
| 17 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 18 | The Regional Council was consulted on the previous supermarket application and may be consulted by the District Council on the present proposal , although this is not certain as I believe it is about half the size of the earlier application . |
| 19 | Although the debate over whether the pre- or the postsynaptic changes are the most important is still raging as I write , it is likely to turn out , as is sometimes but not always the case in science , that both camps are more or less right . |
| 20 | This is as close as I have felt to Cambridgeshire for some considerable time . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ This is as close as I want to get , Joe . ’ |
| 22 | Everybody is contributing and the atmosphere in the side is as good as I 've known it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ There 's a motel here , and this is as far as I want to drive today . ’ |
| 24 | That is as far as I want to go in drawing morals from Biomorph Land . |
| 25 | That is as far as I have got . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 27 | The place is as busy as I 've ever seen it . ’ |
| 28 | Of course if determination is as open-ended as I have argued it is , absent any criterion to distinguish the genuine from the false determination , then no positive law could be unjust because every positive law , whatever its content , being a determination of the natural law , will necessarily be consistent with the natural law and therefore valid . |
| 29 | I am studying acting , but that 's as far as I 've gone . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's as far as I 've got with this bit . ’ |