Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as i " in BNC.

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1 And there you are importunate even as I am .
2 ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago .
3 Not as cold not as cold yet as I thought it was going to be .
4 The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge .
5 I 'm as good now as I was then and my target is 20 goals for the season .
6 But that 's not so far off as I am , I thought you were much younger than I .
7 But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 .
8 She says of her new career that it is ‘ partly choice , but I wanted to leave school-teaching anyway as I had become disillusioned ’ .
9 And I have to confess that I found you as delightful then as I had in Wexford , and was intending to find out where you were going , and pursue the acquaintanceship .
10 The air whipped at me , little gusts of drizzle stinging slightly as I hit them .
11 ‘ I 've started at the College , ’ he told Bobby Hunt , ‘ — it 's very nice there as I do n't have to do anything : the paintings though are past belief . ’
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