Example sentences of "as [adj] as i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 2 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 3 | I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain . |
| 4 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 5 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |
| 6 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |
| 7 | And by the way , if you think that all homeless people have it as easy as I had it , then you are living in dream world . |
| 8 | It was n't as dark as I 'd expected . |
| 9 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 10 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 11 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 12 | I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison . |
| 13 | The precision of Hilaire 's placing was constantly astonishing and in an air-borne rond de jambe Guillem 's long lean line was as breathtaking as I 've seen it . |
| 14 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
| 15 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm as fit as I 've ever been but I 'm lacking match practice , ’ says Kirk . |
| 17 | It might not be as soft as I 've led Richie to believe . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I am glad , at any rate , that you do not find your position here as irksome as I had supposed . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It was as hard as I 've practised in a long time , ’ said the Ryder Cup player . |
| 20 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 21 | He 's been at Pepe 's as long as I 've been coming here — though he does sometimes take holidays , I must admit . ’ |
| 22 | As sure as I have tusks , this is ontology on the hoof . |
| 23 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 24 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 25 | It 's a production to be recommended there 's lot of fun , good singing and the riverbank scene of Act 3 was as effective as I have ever seen , not least for Colin Rees 's mercurial exploration of the fat knight 's character even though the river was more Essex marshes than Windsor . |
| 26 | Everybody is contributing and the atmosphere in the side is as good as I 've known it . ’ |
| 27 | The place is as busy as I 've ever seen it . ’ |
| 28 | Right now — I 've got Don and my children , I 'm as happy as I 've ever been . |
| 29 | She looked as happy as I have ever seen her look . |
| 30 | Professionally , this is as far as I 'd ever imagined going . |