Example sentences of "as [adv] as i [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 2 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 3 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 4 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 5 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 6 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 7 | Everything in Stranraer Gardens was as still as I had left it . |
| 8 | But he 's never ever , as far as I know offered to drive the minibus . |
| 9 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 10 | But a speck of dirt never hurt anybody , as far as I 've learnt . |
| 11 | As far as I have seen , the BBC has not even seen fit to broadcast a single programme in his memory . |
| 12 | Of course , he will have to cope with demonstrations , many of the less sober sort , but , as far as I have heard , he is doing this with massive inscrutability . |
| 13 | This process rarely runs as smoothly as I have suggested . |
| 14 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Not as well as I 'd hoped . |
| 16 | But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said . |
| 17 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |