Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mabel had told everyone that she was sure that war was about to start , and at first she seemed disgruntled that she had been proved wrong , but soon was as ecstatic as everyone else about the news .
2 Today , when councils like that in Tewkesbury restore old Meeting Houses — in Tewkesbury 's case a Baptist chapel down a narrow lane opposite the great Abbey Church — Baptist visitors are as surprised as everyone else at the austerity of the past .
3 Paralysis held Theda blank of mind and body , as still and silent as everyone else in the breakfast parlour .
4 ‘ He was as bad at football as everyone else in the team but he was very good value , a very able and genuinely funny man .
5 ‘ You 've got Connah 's Quay , Flint , Holywell and Mold all within about 12 miles of each other , as well as ourselves just up the road , ’ says Jones .
6 Because in it , through a slit in the curtains which had been drawn as incompetently as everything else about the house had been done , a heavy man could be seen , in winceyette pyjamas , red-faced and gesturing angrily .
7 Lunch was , in its way , as obnoxious to the senses as everything else in the factory .
8 erm just just as something totally off the top of my head erm I very much regretted the demise of the proper programme erm and in fact I I actually object to the paying twenty pence for something that er really does n't represent value for money .
9 And they are treated exactly the same as anybody else on the Tour .
10 It 's got one vote , the same as anybody else on the floor .
11 He was just as much of a mad f—er as anyone else on the paper — he recalls sulphate-fuelled weeks spent in East Germany , for example — but he did n't take it too seriously .
12 Agreement on GATT is as important to this country as anything else at the moment , and the Community will have to make amendments to its policy to play its part in reaching that agreement .
13 The issues before us now are as important , at least as important as anything else in the Bill .
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