Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [adv] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 2 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 3 | If he cut it below himself his object was presumably to save himself as well as his leader . |
| 4 | We 've paid enormous attention to making cookery a treat for you as well as your family , by positively helping you to cook a better meal . |
| 5 | " I 'll look after you as well as your Aunt Bridget , and better . |
| 6 | He bought one as soon as his bank balance could survive the impact of bringing all that fancy engineering from Japan to Iceland and immediately set about modifying it to suit his own very special requirements . |
| 7 | ‘ You was , ’ retorted Gwendolen , grammar deserting her as well as her fiction about her own relationship with the dead man . |
| 8 | I knew that the eyes of at least half the accountants and data-processors at the neighbouring tables were on her as well as my own . |
| 9 | The final system design is evaluated on the basis of job satisfaction of those working on it as well as its efficiency . |
| 10 | I have encountered it so often in a lengthy acquaintance with this landscape , I know it as well as my own name . |
| 11 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 12 | Then on to the next house where they slyly accept a poster and bin it as soon as your back is turned ; and then to the next where support is promised if only your party in exchange guarantees to persecute , imprison and preferably execute certain categories of non-white-skinned people . |
| 13 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 14 | The praise of Keegan and the criticism of Brown might have surprised and distressed earlier generations of gentlemen-amateurs but it was logical in its own terms ; if players wished to become rich , they had to sell themselves as well as their skill . |
| 15 | Great writers , I now realize , do not do such things : if they do , they condemn themselves as well as their invented characters . |
| 16 | It 's a battle every time Kathleen wants to go out with me , with that brother of hers as well as her mother . ’ |
| 17 | I should have loved thee as well as my mother did if … but 't is all over now . |
| 18 | ‘ Brrap ! ’ said my anus loudly , surprising me as well as my father . |
| 19 | I never use them as well as my own . |
| 20 | In Belfast , sure , you can go up to someone 's door mid-evening , knock politely , and then blast the hell out of them as soon as their shadow darkens the frosted glass . |
| 21 | You can start vibrating them as soon as your have laid a few metres . |
| 22 | After some heated argument in which I pointed out that it would have been more courteous and certainly more seamanlike to ask us to move before attempting to sink us as well as our motor boat , the skipper agreed to accept liability for the damage , and we moved off to lick our wounds . |