Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Same as them posh blokes what come here — they all want to be caned . |
| 2 | There 's heavier people than me that ride , jump jockeys are nearly as heavy as me that ride . |
| 3 | This is actually patch group 1 , bank 1 — not eleven , as I first thought . |
| 4 | The slenderest patients , those whose faces are nothing more than a triangle of bone around the eyes , they 're Musselmänner : not , as I first thought , as an ironical glance at musclemen . |
| 5 | as I first show in sequel whether the white waistcoated gentleman was right or not , I should have |
| 6 | As long as you that situation , I mean that 's the main thing . |
| 7 | Finally , stand back and have another look at the fish … is it really as good as you first thought , or have you become less impressed with it , the more you have been close to it ? |
| 8 | Now I realised something was wrong for , as you young men know , if a horse becomes uncontrollable the best thing to do is to dismount as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | ‘ Without wishing to expose myself to obloquy , as you exposed friend Harq before we all became colleagues — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't let anyone ever tell you that fat folk do n't feel the cold just as much as you skinny ones . |
| 11 | Even your supporters are becoming alarmed by the destabilising effect of general practitioner fundholding , as you top slice cash from the central reserve and ensure that it can be spent only on the limited number of services that general practitioners are allowed to purchase directly . |
| 12 | So I 'll be in the same boat as you next year . |
| 13 | The lad who led her in , the irate punter who looked up at her with contempt and muttered , ‘ You 're useless ’ , Bill , who made little effort to conceal his anger as she unsaddled Boardwalk . |
| 14 | ‘ It really is the most beautiful place on earth , ’ Ruth was still enthusing as she bearded mussels and washed prawns for the paella Fernando had promised her . |
| 15 | However , as we ex-Service members are constantly involved in appealing to the genral public for financial donations to our appeals , would it not be prudent to keep the expense of any such memorial to the minimum ? |
| 16 | However , the ‘ techno ’ track , as we modern pop persons like to call it , ‘ Phantasmogoric ’ , is much more like ‘ Justified And Ancient ’ , so it all begins to make sense . |
| 17 | The river we had crossed was to our left and was not , as we first thought , melt water from the spout ; that formed a river to our right . |
| 18 | The aim of the treatment is to keep the blood levels of this substance venial alanine as low as we possible can . |
| 19 | Yet as we religious communicators no longer have the clout we once had , the result is that we are talking primarily to ourselves . |
| 20 | It risks , however , giving the impression that what matters is not the quality of life as we each experience it in our individual consciousness , but simply what takes place in some objective world — which seems a betrayal of the whole point of utilitarianism . |
| 21 | I shall be drawing a considerable sum in a few days but you must know how it is , travelling the country as we old soldiers do … thank you … ten pounds will be quite sufficient … and you must let me spend some more of it in your excellent company … that evening 's entertainment we enjoyed together , Mr Wood , ’ his voice rose in the small hallway and the other guests and servants indoors and out strained noticeably to catch what would surely be the eloquent testimonial of a compliment , ‘ was one of the , shall we say , most boisterous and wise , a rare combination , Mr Landlord , I have spent , whether in London , in Europe or in and out of ships and foreign postings in a long lifetime . |
| 22 | The Conservative election victory did owe something to Mrs Thatcher 's past efforts ; these efforts included a re-ordering of the social hierarchy , making the poor more down and out , and bringing the lower middle class ( as we old Marxists used to say ) or C2s in class-free speak , within shopping distance of middle class ( B/C1 ) comfort . |
| 23 | Indeed , the beginning of the period is as far removed from the end of it as we human beings are removed from it in history . |
| 24 | OK , so they 've had more than one single out , buy anyone who 's ready to dismiss them as past-it stroppy brats is wrong — they 're in tune with reality and still nowhere near their peak . |
| 25 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 26 | ‘ And several house building companies who have routinely offered temporary occupancy to farmers using three to four year Licences may find it is not as easy to establish their own occupancy as they first thought . ’ |
| 27 | It worked out as she hoped ; Tommaso was hanging about outside in the square with a group of other young men , smoking and strolling around to join the girls drawing the evening water at the fountain ; he came near her ; to her surprise , she saw he was n't smiling , not like the others , who were laughing and exchanging remarks , between themselves , grinning strenuously as they play-acted contempt for the young women they wooed . |
| 28 | the same way as they any profit making event . |
| 29 | ( xxviii ) says that Kleon was the first to raise his voice and use theatrical gestures — as it all politicians earlier than Kleon spoke in a monotone with their arms rigidly at their sides ! |
| 30 | This is mainly what we are concerned with here , as it these areas that can cause us problems when designing and then transferring to the console . |