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 . |