Example sentences of "[adv] well as i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
2 | cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected |
3 | I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago . |
4 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
5 | You see , when Wolsey fell from power and died in Leicester Abbey , crushing my hand and whispering , ‘ If I had served my God as well as I served my king , he would not leave me to die like this , ’ Agrippa transferred his allegiance to Henry and brought those two witches over to build a special clock . |
6 | ‘ Not as well as I 'd hoped . |
7 | But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said . |
8 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
9 | Sir , I have been with my master for twenty years and I know his appearance as well as I know my own . |
10 | You know my name as well as I know yours ! ’ |
11 | " Nenna , I know all your intonations as well as I know my own , and I can tell that you 're in a very bad state . |
12 | ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’ |
13 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | ‘ You know the rules as well as I do . ’ |
17 | In any case , you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . ’ |
18 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
19 | ‘ You know that as well as I do , after the Beach Bombings . ’ |
20 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
21 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
22 | 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 . ’ |
23 | ‘ You know as well as I do ’ |
24 | Though , of course , you know that as well as I do ! |
25 | ‘ 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 ! |
26 | ‘ You know the odds as well as I do . |
27 | ‘ Not rubbing anything out — you know as well as I do , you 're not allowed to rub anything out . ’ |
28 | ‘ 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 . |
29 | ‘ You know as well as I do , ’ said Loppe , ‘ that when Famagusta surrenders , this island will split into flame like a fireball . |
30 | Denis is a professional and knows that as well as I do . ’ |