Example sentences of "[adv] as i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 2 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 3 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 4 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 5 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 6 | ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’ |
| 7 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 8 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 10 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 11 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 12 | ‘ My family has always helped me out , but it 's getting hard , especially as I have to give up work for four months . ’ |
| 13 | Who can dispute the fact that , if the figures were not as I have just announced and if industrial relations had not improved , we could not have attracted our record level of inward investment from across the world ? |
| 14 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 15 | No doubt there are those who have seen fear on my face in certain circumstances in this campaign , just as I have seen the same fear on their faces in the same circumstances . |
| 16 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 17 | Just as I have no idea how Lowden keep their guitars as light as this , I 've no idea how they get such a warm , full response out of a medium-sized , thin-bodied instrument . |
| 18 | The psychic reasons for this solidarity I have tried to give in this essay , just as I have attempted to spell out some of the political consequences , but it is to Dahrendorf that we owe the making of the connections between solidarity and economic consequences . |
| 19 | Officially speaking anyway , just as I have a passport . |
| 20 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |
| 21 | You are the Enchanted Ones , the Royal Houses reborn , and you have within you the power and the strength and the light , just as I have ! |
| 22 | Just as I have the right to live mine … ’ |
| 23 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 24 | And because all these things will begin to happen … exactly as I have been told they will happen … more and more rapidly … powerfully … and completely … |
| 25 | And even the apparent libertine , if Walter 's My Secret Life is in any way an accurate chronicle , had his own anxieties born of sexual discretion : ‘ Does every man kiss , coax , hint smuttily , then talk bawdily , snatch a feel , smell his fingers , assault and win , exactly as I have done ? ’ |
| 26 | Can not you see him as well as myself ; Is he not sitting behind me at the bed 's head , to seize upon me for his victim , as soon as I have breathed my last ? ’ |
| 27 | I turned and said : ‘ I will come and find you , sir , just as soon as I have what is required . ’ |
| 28 | I have weighed quite a few bream as soon as I have removed the hook , and again several hours later , and while they always lose some weight , there is no specific loss in terms of so many ounces per hour . |
| 29 | I must early have realized that it was to be a regular correspondence , for I kept her letters , though I usually destroy letters as soon as I have answered them . |
| 30 | Warren responded yesterday by saying : ‘ As soon as I have received official notice from Eastwood we will do what is necessary to get the fight on . |