Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I think … if my father discovered about us — I think he would n't punish me so much as my mother . |
| 2 | I was telling Adrian that , you were putting a red light up in my bedroom that I as long as your brother kept coming home with all his friends . |
| 3 | But they do n't see you as much as his secretary does either do they ? |
| 4 | The counts of Nevers , the lords of Montpellier , the lords of Amboise and Lusignan , the Trencavels , were fervent devotees of the ideal ; so the problems of absences , shipwrecks , death abroad plagued them as much as their princes . |
| 5 | They were as clean you know , the backs of them as clean as my hand . |
| 6 | So when I was ushered into his consulting room , it was his welfare that concerned me as much as my own . |
| 7 | Val was more indignant than Roland about this event , and her indignation upset him as much as his own failure , for he liked Fergus and wanted to be able to go on liking him . |
| 8 | Surely the cross did n't hurt him as much as our unfaithfulness can . |
| 9 | I wondered if he would see at once that something had happened to make my need of him as great as his had been of me when he last saw me . |
| 10 | It was , as Diana confided later , the ‘ unbearable coldness ’ of the letter which hurt her as much as its contents . |
| 11 | Travis looked surprised , and that aggravated her as much as his reply . |
| 12 | And is it as poor as his theme for The Big Match ? |
| 13 | The rest of the blood seeped away from Herr Nordern 's face , leaving it as white as his wife 's . |
| 14 | This is not as mawkish as it sounds largely due to some fine acting but Elenya is ultimately too slow and lacking in true tension and surprise to make it as special as its juvenile lead . |
| 15 | I ask myself about you : Is he as innocent as his speech ? |
| 16 | I ask myself about you : Is he as innocent as his speech ? |
| 17 | But neither as a national leader nor as a party politician was he as commanding as his mother or his grandfather , Jawaharlal Nehru , India 's first prime minister . |