Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried to keep it as logical as possible and er , there you have it . |
| 2 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 3 | Carrie was afraid at first that Albert would despise such a babyish pastime but he seemed to enjoy it as much as Nick did , shouting with laughter when he tripped over bumps in the ice and not wanting to stop , even when she said it was time they were going . |
| 4 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 5 | And the undulants displayed a conspicuous electric field whenever they moved ; she 'd felt it as static whenever they touched-her . |
| 6 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
| 7 | By luck he survived all this and afterwards his Canadian friends decided to adopt me as one of the lads . |
| 8 | I do n't think they meant to hurt him as much as they did . ’ |
| 9 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , a tiny smile did play round his features when he introduced bras and kets and one had the feeling that this little joke had given him as much pleasure as anything . |
| 11 | That idea had occurred to Lisa , but she had discarded it as unthinkable . |
| 12 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 13 | Pippin 's grievances had , unsurprisingly , nothing to do with Alemannia but a lot to do with his father 's interference in and around Aquitaine which had once , of course , been Louis 's own realm ( he had ruled it as sub-king from 781 to 814 ) . |
| 14 | Merlyn Rees , Gregor Mackenzie and John Cunningham , all of whom were friends who had served me as Parliamentary Private Secretaries , rallied at once and with Tom McNally , my Political Adviser , formed a small inner team to conduct the contest on my behalf . |
| 15 | Topaz had pictured her as tall and brawny as befitted a martinet . |
| 16 | Thomas and Lansbury , however , lacked both imagination and thrust ; and Mosley , who did produce a Keynesian scheme of public works , resigned after the Cabinet had rejected it as impracticable . |
| 17 | Her own strong and unthinking rejection of him had shocked her as much as it had shocked him . |
| 18 | Bursting into her life with a devastating charm , he had undermined her defences with skill , until she had faced him as defenceless as a de-shelled crab , and he had destroyed her illusions with the cruel indifference of a natural predator . |
| 19 | Nigel had loved it as much as I , but it was n't ‘ efficient ’ . |
| 20 | And it was er They used to great pride in their in their er stacks because they had to make them as neat as they could and er well built , so that if the So that w that was good for the To keep the the wind keep them dry . |
| 21 | Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant , and by all accounts it was ; rejection hurt . |
| 22 | While condemning the Soviet coup , Marchais had described it as understandable in view of the failure of perestroika . |
| 23 | This thought had crossed Robyn 's mind before , but she had suppressed it as ignoble . |
| 24 | Part of Miller 's next letter , 12 January 1758 , has already been quoted ( p. 80 ) with regard to loss of specimens at sea and this was regrettable as his Hortus siccus contained nearly ten thousand specimens and he wished to make it as complete as possible . |
| 25 | No doubt she wanted to spare you as many decisions as possible . ’ |
| 26 | No decisions have yet been made as to pricing , but O'Connell says ACT intended to make it as easy for existing customers as possible . |