Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From outside it looked like a faded bell but within was a brilliant and sumptuous chamber of fiery gold adorned with most exquisite tapestry , and it moved me as much as I was moved when I saw the dome of the Blue Mosque at Isfahan , the most beautiful building I have ever seen . |
| 2 | It sees them as little more than rural ghettoes designed by previous hated white regimes to keep blacks and whites apart . |
| 3 | It threatened him as much as it did his victim . |
| 4 | Properly speaking , the force ( and also the weakness ) of a personal testimony is that it tells us as much about the person who believes as about the content of what he believes . |
| 5 | It hurt me as much as anyone . |
| 6 | It hurt me as much as you . ’ |
| 7 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |
| 8 | As the years went by , Dexter saw the look less frequently but when he did it irked him as much as ever . |