Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His insecurity will persist so long as he bottles up change , no matter how well his ruling party behaves . |
| 2 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 3 | You should know as well as I do the public can be a very difficult master ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'll cooperate as far as I can , on the understanding of course that I remain in control — full control — of anything to do with my project . |
| 5 | Dana did not shave as often as I did . |
| 6 | There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules . |
| 7 | In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet . |
| 8 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 9 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 10 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 11 | ‘ When the recovery does come , we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |
| 12 | When the recovery comes we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |
| 13 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 14 | We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year . |
| 15 | We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year . |
| 16 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner . |
| 18 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 19 | Third , you have to believe that they can do as well as you . |
| 20 | " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics . |
| 21 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 23 | But it does n't matter as far as we 're concerned because one side of Katrina is just as bright as the other side . |
| 24 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 25 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , you will do very well as you are , child , ’ she replied . |
| 27 | I do n't mind , I do n't mind so long as I just get out a bit on , into town and |
| 28 | It is likely that a structure which was appropriate to an organisation at a particular stage in its development will become less so as it matures . |
| 29 | He 'd run away repeatedly as he 'd got older , never with anywhere to go but just anxious to be free of the confining walls and restrictive atmosphere . |
| 30 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |