Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mum gets a bit tired ; I go to see them as often as I can : it cheers Dad up , and Mum loves the children . ’ |
| 2 | I try to see them as often as I can . |
| 3 | because the second , third and fourth measures involve precise numbers rather than a vague expression of feeling , it 's tempting to see them as more useful and accurate . |
| 4 | Different types of management experience were integrated into a set of principles which were all interrelated and presented at a level of generality which made them as widely applicable as possible . |
| 5 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 6 | That is why we could treat them as more Realist than the Realists . |
| 7 | Ira Dilworth applauded the idea and gave me an official ‘ To Whom It May Concern ’ letter of introduction , which opened a number of official doors , got me as far as Edmonton , and served as an invaluable introduction to some high ranking officers of the R.C.A.F. |
| 8 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 9 | Practitioners of such technically adept management , the new ‘ professional managers ’ of United States business schools , have recently been lambasted both for their failure to conceive strategies and to implement them as well as for their systematic choice of self-defeating strategies ( Hayes and Abernathy , 1980 ; see also Hayes and Wheelwright , 1984 ; Hayes et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 11 | I started drawing them as well as I could remember . |
| 12 | Seeing ourselves as less important than anyone else , or less worthy or deserving than others , is just another form of arrogance , disguised as humility or neurosis . |
| 13 | It er I I mean I as far as I 'm concerned it 's er extremely difficult to get people to er come to social events . |
| 14 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ By the time we 're married , you will know me as well as you know yourself . |
| 16 | Forgive me as freely as I forgive you . ’ |
| 17 | Many of them ( they numbered over one million ) met with hostility from mainland French people who regarded them as more foreign than French . |
| 18 | We erm , given that you have to do , okay , I did n't brief them as fully as I could of , and half way through I looked at it again just to make sure I had n't missed the bottom line that said , you know stand on your head instead in the park , so I just had a little read . |
| 19 | Albrecht Dürer designed them as early as 1500 or before . |
| 20 | Send photographs if available ; if not , take some and forward them as soon as possible . |
| 21 | He described them as quite unbelievably unattractive . |
| 22 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 23 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 24 | Some have suggested that his appointment at Berlin was the result of a compromise by the orchestra , an attempt to secure someone as far removed from Karajan in character , musical and personal , as the world could offer . |
| 25 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
| 26 | Should delivery be delayed we undertake to inform you as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 28 | ‘ Memory or no memory , I would n't describe you as all in one piece , exactly , after last night . ’ |
| 29 | Modern linguistics is a field full of conflicting theories , and an external observer would be hard put to accept one as better than the rest . |
| 30 | But in this return he sometimes found something as horribly inane as the tedium of the city clerk 's world . |