Example sentences of "[to-vb] i as [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked .
2 Herta comes down to visit me as often as she can , which is not very often , because this is wartime , after all .
3 How could they decide to punish me as cruelly as this ?
4 ‘ Can you get him to call me as soon as possible ?
5 I got Bunny out of the pub just before chucking-out time and with a bit of persuasion he agreed to take me as far as Hackney , dropping me off at the end of Stuart Street .
6 When I asked why , she tried to tell me as gently as she could , but I did n't understand — ‘ Your Pop comes into our room at night . ’
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