Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't like killing even a fly , so I sure as hell do n't like killing babies . |
| 2 | ‘ Well I sure as hell would hate to do Seventh Avenue , ’ she said with feeling . |
| 3 | I ai n't the sort to be taken for granted , and I sure as hell do n't want to be someone 's fancy woman . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think I scare easily , but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend . |
| 5 | I sure as hell feel like masturbating . |
| 6 | But I sure as hell hope that the BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey is going to tell us , ’ he proclaims . |
| 7 | You may have been expecting me , but I sure as hell was n't expecting you ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't stop you leaving , true , ’ he agreed furiously , ‘ But I sure as hell can stop you getting work in your present occupation ! ’ |
| 9 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 10 | She sure as hell wo n't . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm glad Caro was happy then because she sure as hell was n't later on ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We can stop a boat at sea , but we sure as hell ca n't put a foot on dry land without Bahamian permission . |
| 13 | We didn' find him , but we sure as hell found where he 'd bin . |
| 14 | But whereas institutions can be forced to change their behaviour — I can , for example , request that my bank address me routinely as Ms rather than Miss , in everyday encounters unregulated by institutions , matters are less clear-cut . |
| 15 | He has told civil servants at the DTI to address him henceforth as president rather than as the traditional Secretary of State . |
| 16 | Predictably , Melody Maker 's reviewer simply stated , ‘ And you just have ’ while Record Mirror expanded on the same theme with : ‘ They sure as hell can , and whoever let this loose in vinyl did . ’ |
| 17 | They sure as hell do n't need your paper and even less journalists like Steven Wells with his repetitive , egotistical comments ! |
| 18 | They can do what they believe they can do but they sure as hell can not do what their manager believes they can not do . |
| 19 | A line erased and recut seems to have described him originally as tyrant of Gel a , and the political events reflected in this claim and its cancellation can only belong to the seventies . |
| 20 | He was a lifelong Etonian : that his three sons each succeeded him there as captain of Oppidans , and that he himself was elected an Eton fellow , were sources of great personal satisfaction . |
| 21 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 22 | Rolle expresses it metaphorically as speech becomes song . |
| 23 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 24 | I hope you have a family business you can push him into when he leaves school because he sure as heck wo n't get a job anywhere else . ’ |
| 25 | But there was no kitchen and he sure as hell was in no state to get up , so I was wondering where he was going to get something to drink from . |
| 26 | He sure as hell found the right one if anonymity is what he 's after . |
| 27 | He sure as hell was not going to volunteer the information . |
| 28 | ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club . |
| 29 | The contract is thus a " dual capacity " transaction in the strict sense and the broker enters into it both as agent for the client and as principal . |
| 30 | By the mid-fourth century the patriarchal line of Church leadership began to fuse with a male construction of celibacy that defined it both as avoidance of contact with women as the source of sin and as a source of power over inferior married people . |