Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My wife and I are not badly off as we have the state pension , my police pension , and a police civil staff pension . |
| 2 | ‘ Not so fast as I 'd like , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Jerome had done foully , but not so foully as he himself and all here believed . |
| 4 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware . |
| 5 | ‘ Not so far as we know , ’ a man in a flat cap wearing a Hawks Club tie told him . |
| 6 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 7 | I wonder if you are using ( in lectures ) a statement I remember you making in talk , but not so far as I can recall , in print . |
| 8 | It was of course simple mischance that this rat-tat should happen , even though the kiosk is not so far as I know a particularly busy one . |
| 9 | ‘ Not so far as I know . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Not so far as I know . |
| 11 | Not so far as I recollect . ’ |
| 12 | Not so far as I know . |
| 13 | But he was n't a friend of Hilary 's , not so far as I know . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Not so far as I am aware . ’ |
| 15 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 16 | ‘ Not so often as you , Morse . ’ |
| 17 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 18 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
| 19 | ‘ Not so long as you keep within the law . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Not so long as I am working for you . ’ |
| 21 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 22 | It melted as it fell , but not as fast as it fell . |
| 23 | They believe that everyone should write as they do : not as well as they do , of course , but in the same fashion . |
| 24 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 25 | ‘ Not as well as you did . |
| 26 | ‘ Not as well as I 'd hoped . |
| 27 | Although they never spoke directly of Lachlan , each knew the other 's mind ; though not as well as she believed . |
| 28 | He was driving fast but safely and , Agnes noted , not as well as she could have done . |
| 29 | ‘ Obviously not as badly as you did . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps not as badly as you wished to go , ’ he interrupted harshly . |