Example sentences of "as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really . |
| 32 | She makes and she 's as green as them shelves . |
| 33 | I do n't know what I 'd do if I smoked as many as them ! |
| 34 | Well none of the others looked as young as them did they ? |
| 35 | That you know as much as them , would n't you ? |
| 36 | Well we , we have the same price structure as them , so |
| 37 | a lot of these places , they start you if they think you 've had experience and all that , but it do n't always work as well as them that ai n't had experience . |
| 38 | Yeah , but , no , no , it 's exactly the same as them he could n't be bothered , I mean my mum 's eighty and , and she ca n't get out now and he ca n't |
| 39 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 40 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 41 | When you are passing over these mountains ( poynting with his finger towarde the south mountaines ) … you shall see another sea , where they sayle with ships as bigge as yours , using both sayles and ores as you doe , although they men be naked as wee are … ’ |
| 42 | Are conditions there as primitive as everyone says ? ’ |
| 43 | And all was well , as everyone could see when big , proud , handsome and scatty-but-obedient Moby launched himself out of the car ( on command , of course ! ) for the video cover photo call . |
| 44 | All she is asking for , she says , is to live the same kind of life as everyone else . |
| 45 | Just as everyone was expecting a draw , however , Yusupov made a an unexpected sacrifice of a bishop . |
| 46 | They saw Hollywood films , just as everyone else did , and many made valiant efforts to learn from American filmmaking styles . |
| 47 | President Gorbachev is as uncertain as everyone about what the future of the two — perhaps one — German states will be , but there is no doubt that the Gorbachev vision of a new Europe had to encompass the Wall 's disappearance . |
| 48 | But what you carry away in the back of your eye is the image of two very still figures , in foetal folds , on the platform of that truck as everyone else dived for cover . |
| 49 | Just tell me one last thing : as everyone is so busy wiping out the memory of the last 40 odd years , do you still want to keep your military headstone with its red star ? |
| 50 | But as everyone knows , Lady Nature only provides the exceptional with parsimony . |
| 51 | Two years after that last fight , Ali seemed as mystified as everyone else as to why he had n't ended his career earlier . |
| 52 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 53 | But it was his heart , and as everyone said , you can never tell with hearts . |
| 54 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 55 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 56 | They buy only records on import from Outer Mongolia and stop playing them as soon as everyone else does ; they refuse to watch films without foreign subtitles , never read hardbacks , and will not enter a club if the general public can also get in . |
| 57 | The scene is n't as great as everyone is making out . |
| 58 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 59 | Ari held Nathan 's hand as everyone greeted the dawn of the Solstice Day . |
| 60 | I want to say to her : my needs are not small , I have the same needs as you , I have the same needs as everyone else ! |