Example sentences of "as [adv] as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not as keenly as I feel your jealousy , pretty one , ’ she said . |
| 2 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 5 | Surely it can not be possible , she was thinking , to love anyone as intensely as I love this man . |
| 6 | ROS : Oh no — we 've been spinning coins for as long as I remember . |
| 7 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 8 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 9 | Now for those of us that have been slightly biased by the dubiously titled ‘ Warehouse Raves ’ compilations that Rumour have been responsible for in the past , well we can not sit up and take note , because here comes their most exciting release for as long as I care to remember ( sorry Rumour ! ) . |
| 10 | Your father has extended to me the hospitality of his house for as long as I care to take it , or until he grows sick of the sight of me . |
| 11 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 12 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 13 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 14 | ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’ |
| 15 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 17 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 18 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 19 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 20 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 21 | If you keep listening to the radio , you 'll probably hear any news as quickly as I do . |
| 22 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 23 | What no one , as far as I know , has ever done is to show whether there is any space , weight , efficiency or cost saving that results from assembling all the windings onto one core . |
| 24 | ‘ As far as I know , no Vietnamese have been captured since 26 September , ’ said Marine Colonel Chumphon Chotiyothin . |
| 25 | It is a view which , by contrast with that of Morgan and Engels , is , as far as I know , totally abandoned . |
| 26 | Still , he was a bachelor and he 'd no staff as far as I know . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Not as far as I know , my dear . |
| 28 | ‘ Not as far as I know . |
| 29 | Interestingly enough , that 's the only book as far as I know which veers from history . |
| 30 | I prescribed Nit Ac LM2 and as far as I know she remains well . |