Example sentences of "[pron] as [adv] as we " in BNC.

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1 Oh I I as far as we 're concerned er the when bit is if you were are available er now we could even put you on this Thursday .
2 When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could .
3 If time permits , we would be happy to accommodate you as far as we can .
4 I said to the orchestra , ‘ If there are discords we must always play them as beautifully as we know how . ’
5 We were to discover what opportunities there were , and use them as fully as we could .
6 Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can .
7 We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances .
8 We followed him as quietly as we could .
9 ‘ He does have Paula with him as far as we know , ’ Monica reminded him .
10 ‘ We only hope that when our sons , baby Toby and Charlie , marry , they do it as outrageously as we did , ’ say Trevor and Erika .
11 If it is to save us , we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death .
12 ’ And as soon as she disappears , we beat it as fast as we can .
13 We ran after it as fast as we could .
14 We are dealing with it as well as we can in the circumstances and are beginning to have some real effect .
15 You see , it 's not just speaking in other tongues , there is gon na become the evidence of it as well as we grow in him .
16 While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort .
17 And that was it as far as we were concerned . ’
18 It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could .
19 They do n't analyze it as often as we do .
20 Believing that people were always like we are , they just did n't understand themselves as well as we do , leads to dangerous historical inaccuracies .
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