Example sentences of "as [adv] as i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 2 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’ |
| 9 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 11 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before we came away , I bought a special cream supposed to restore elasticity to the skin , but I destroyed the wrapper on the jar and the accompanying , incriminating literature , as furtively as I had , when young , removed the cover of a book on sex . ) |
| 16 | Everything in Stranraer Gardens was as still as I had left it . |
| 17 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 18 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 19 | But a speck of dirt never hurt anybody , as far as I 've learnt . |
| 20 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 21 | And , as far as I had been able to judge , the feeling was pretty mutual . |
| 22 | Of course , he will have to cope with demonstrations , many of the less sober sort , but , as far as I have heard , he is doing this with massive inscrutability . |
| 23 | As far as I have been able to discover , the first papers in French West Africa to be owned and controlled by Africans were Le Cri Nègre and Le Phare du Dahomey . |
| 24 | The view of these two organizations , as far as I have been able to discover , runs something like this . |
| 25 | As far as I have seen , the BBC has not even seen fit to broadcast a single programme in his memory . |
| 26 | He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility . |
| 27 | As far as I have been able to find out , it has no specific connection with Bristol but is named after Nonsuch Palace , which was built in Surrey near Hampton Court . |
| 28 | This process rarely runs as smoothly as I have suggested . |
| 29 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 30 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |