Example sentences of "as [adv] as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ Not as keenly as I feel your jealousy , pretty one , ’ she said . |
| 3 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 4 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 5 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 6 | ‘ Let me put it as delicately as I can . |
| 7 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 8 | Surely it can not be possible , she was thinking , to love anyone as intensely as I love this man . |
| 9 | ‘ That I 'm a two-headed yellow-bellied adulteress serving the clients poisoned drinks — as slowly as I possibly can , ’ Charity guessed with good humour . |
| 10 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 11 | But after putting the case as powerfully as I could — including some speculation about the alternative of an inefficient and out-of-date inspectorate — the point was conceded and the money found . |
| 12 | Yet to psychologists or physiologists in the audience , the surprise was that simply training an animal on an imprinting stimulus , or indeed any other form of learning , could produce a change of measurable magnitude at all ; they would search our experimental designs for sources of artefact just as rigorously as I myself had done with the ‘ transfer ’ experiments . |
| 13 | In fact I have gone further and said a " mixed " crew was , in my view , infinitely better than , any " national " crew , one of the reasons , possibly , for the high proportion of Commonwealth crews was my established policy of spreading my selection net as widely as I could in view of the poor cooperation of the Groups ; to this end I literally plagued the various HQs in London — the Aussies at Kodak House etc . |
| 14 | I have told her , as gently as I can , but quite firmly . |
| 15 | I suggested as gently as I could to Jean-Claude that he give Chaillot a ring . |
| 16 | " You have n't told us your name , " I said , as gently as I could . |
| 17 | Then I said , as gently as I could , ‘ He is dead , Martinho . |
| 18 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 19 | I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside . |
| 20 | In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 23 | For as long as I can remember , it has been standard medical teaching that teething of babies causes no symptoms . |
| 24 | Its American equivalent , the New Yorker , has been read for its advertisements in this country for as long as I can remember . |
| 25 | I kept you here for as long as I could but I ca n't do that anymore . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 27 | Mine starts at least two weeks before I begin fishing and continues , albeit less frequently , for as long as I am fishing that water . |
| 28 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 29 | The black tarred roof had been ‘ like that for as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |