Example sentences of "so [adj] as i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 2 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 3 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 4 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 5 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 6 | Besides , it is not quite so urgent as I thought . |
| 7 | Mr , er I as so far as I got , Not impossible for development to occur with these constraints . |
| 8 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 9 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |