Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 2 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 3 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 4 | And in this particular county one has only got to look to Ryedale who s I so far as I know is the only authority to have carried out a comprehensive survey of local housing needs . |
| 5 | It er I I mean I as far as I 'm concerned it 's er extremely difficult to get people to er come to social events . |
| 6 | ‘ He would n't kill you so long as I 'm alive . |
| 7 | To what er they show some of the old films like they had in them days some of these circus pictures and travel pictures Now I 'll tell you something that 's rather remarkable I 'll I 'll b tell you as briefly as I can . |
| 8 | I 'll protect you as well as I can , my dearest love , whatever you may or may not have done ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I already know you as well as I could ever want to . |
| 11 | ‘ Here 's the towel , I 'll see to you as quickly as I can , it 's a bit colder this evening . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 13 | Thank you very much Mr President and as you 've been friendly enough to invite me and given me such a friendly welcome , I , I thought I ought to risk speaking to you as candidly as I can about what is going on in our country and our communities at the moment and whether by the end of the thing I continue your friend is another matter . |
| 14 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 15 | Put on my mettle , I told them as simply as I could of how Tony , Poll and Doreen had made their ‘ Feast ’ , burying their doll ( I substituted doll for scouter ) and covering the mound with flowers ; and how , at the end , as a simple token of courtesy or affection , Tony had presented his penis for Doreen 's pleasure . |
| 16 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 17 | I started drawing them as well as I could remember . |
| 18 | There were a few cars parked , but none with anyone in them as far as I could see . |
| 19 | ‘ Mum gets a bit tired ; I go to see them as often as I can : it cheers Dad up , and Mum loves the children . ’ |
| 20 | I try to see them as often as I can . |
| 21 | We erm , given that you have to do , okay , I did n't brief them as fully as I could of , and half way through I looked at it again just to make sure I had n't missed the bottom line that said , you know stand on your head instead in the park , so I just had a little read . |
| 22 | With a shout , I ran at them as hard as I could . |
| 23 | Forgive me as freely as I forgive you . ’ |
| 24 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 25 | And they all said now look is there anything we can do and I said no , it 's not , if you 're coming to me as far as I 'm concerned I will do it , you need anything and I will cope . |
| 26 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Keeping my feelings hidden from him as well as I could , I suggested that the hospital was becoming too obvious and dangerous a hiding place . |
| 29 | It 's a long way , it 's a long way to come and pop in see without you knowing him as well as I do he , he , Rudy 's so hard to move , I mean I 'd love , I 've said that |
| 30 | I ran after him as fast as I could . |