Example sentences of "[adv] well as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 2 | No ’ — he forestalled Cameron 's objection — ‘ you know as well as I do , Angus , the Duke is daft but he is clever , and he has an entry to every house from Atholl to Dunkeld . |
| 3 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 4 | It 's not a role that I welcome , although I try hard as a responsible chairman of the group to do the job as well as I possibly can . |
| 5 | ‘ You know the rules as well as I do . ’ |
| 6 | In any case , you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . ’ |
| 7 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 8 | ‘ You know that as well as I do , after the Beach Bombings . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Not as well as I 'd hoped . |
| 10 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 11 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
| 12 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 13 | That is why I want to find out , at least as well as I can by watching him , what he is like … . |
| 14 | ‘ You know as well as I do ’ |
| 15 | Though , of course , you know that as well as I do ! |
| 16 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 17 | I think that 's why I got through life as well as I did . |
| 18 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 19 | ‘ Although I do not speak English as well as I should , I did at one time know England well . |
| 20 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 21 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 22 | ‘ You know the odds as well as I do . |
| 23 | ‘ Not rubbing anything out — you know as well as I do , you 're not allowed to rub anything out . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Right-ho ’ — and he knew the situation as well as I did . |
| 25 | Cal was thinking about having children , when she can act nearly as well as I can ! |
| 26 | ‘ You know as well as I do it 's a damned great industry — and there are plenty of facets to it that never see the light of day . |
| 27 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 28 | ‘ You know as well as I do , ’ said Loppe , ‘ that when Famagusta surrenders , this island will split into flame like a fireball . |
| 29 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
| 30 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |