Example sentences of "as [adv] as [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | ‘ My name 's Erskine Morris , ’ said the man , vanishing the cigarettes as deftly as he had produced them , and continuing to write as he spoke . |
| 3 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
| 4 | All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared . |
| 5 | And she knew … she just knew he 'd wanted her , as badly as she 'd wanted him . |
| 6 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 7 | Even in the very early days of the company , we were aware of the importance of recruitment selection and training and we would not have been able to grow as successfully as we have without it ’ , says |
| 8 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 9 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 10 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
| 11 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 12 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 13 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 14 | We did n't expect it to last as long as it has , and were hoping for some relief by the end of the year . |
| 15 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 16 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 17 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 18 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’ |
| 23 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 25 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
| 28 | ‘ Sometimes , my friend , I wonder how you 've managed to last as long as you have . ’ |
| 29 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 30 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |