Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I ca n't promise that if you leave I 'll be as generous as he was ; I 'll continue your allowance certainly , but as for a house , no ; for as you are well aware , because you know the books as well as I do , it takes us all our time , even with my salary , to continue living here as we have done of yore . |
| 2 | He never had any long-term physical relationships as far as I know . |
| 3 | A hands-on procedure is followed , not only in the studio but at the site , where I build full-scale mock-ups as often as I can . |
| 4 | I kneed him in the balls as hard as I could . |
| 5 | As far as the as far as A level as far as A level plays are concerned I think with had them on the stage before now over the last five ten years as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 6 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 7 | I went after the money with money borrowed from legit sources so far as I could : you know , against property , against insurance policies . |
| 8 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 9 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 10 | The hon. Lady knows those ferry owners as well as I do . |
| 11 | I walked across the moors as fast as I could , and arrived breathless at Wuthering Heights . |
| 12 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 13 | Nobody gets under them machines as fast as me . ’ |
| 14 | I did n't own a pair of binoculars , so I could n't observe the birds as closely as I 'd have wished , but I had something much closer to watch . |
| 15 | It resembled a huge , tubby fish , about three times as long as I was tall , with thick appendages like fins trying to become legs . |
| 16 | ‘ You know the rules as well as I do . ’ |
| 17 | I reject natural ability arguments as vehemently as I reject the notion of ‘ born sportsmen ’ . |
| 18 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 19 | I opened the seals as carefully as I could and read the file . |
| 20 | Well , they were professionals as far as I know , it was n't a matter there of professionals beating amateurs. erm As for the distinction between the amateur and the professional , no , I think , I think that we 've got stuck with this amateur business , partly because it 's related to the idea of the English gentleman , which is only slowly fading . |
| 21 | I 'm not aware we 've got people living physically on agricultural land at the moment , they are fields as far as I know . |
| 22 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 23 | I kicked the blackguard in the guts as hard as I could , flogged him into insensibility , and dropped him in the canal . |
| 24 | " 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ You know the odds as well as I do . |
| 26 | I now have a hell of a lot more time for people but at the same time I do n't seem to tolerate fools as well as I used to . |
| 27 | ‘ You know your master 's habits as well as I do . |
| 28 | ‘ Her husband 's a solicitor , ’ I said , which was n't strictly true but he was in the legal profession , and they 're all as thick as thieves as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 29 | ‘ She has n't got any extensions as far as I can see , ’ I said . |