Example sentences of "much [prep] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever possible , patients should do as much for themselves as they feel able to . |
| 2 | It involves a change of approach , with emphasis and priority placed on encouraging patients and clients to do as much for themselves as possible … . |
| 3 | ‘ There wo n't be quite so much for everybody as usual , but it will be stronger and it wo n't make us all sick quite so easily . ’ |
| 4 | Always , it seems , success for Essex meant as much for him as Test triumph . |
| 5 | Round The Horne was Ken in his element , largely because Barry Took and Marty Feldman ( the latter before long to make a huge hit in Hollywood ) wrote as much for him as for Kenneth Horne . |
| 6 | Whatever the selection process might have been , we both know that proposing this motion is an honour , not so much for us as for our constituents . |
| 7 | You knew how I was when you married me , and everything I do is as much for you as for me . |
| 8 | If the image is something you do n't really think is going to do as much for you as the voice . |
| 9 | I 'm revealing so much about myself as I 'm an example you should follow . |
| 10 | If you have the opportunity of an introduction to a particular barrister , find out as much about him as you can . |
| 11 | He knows or can guess , just as much about me as Mahoney , and yet I 'm not frightened . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe you do n't know as much about me as you think , ’ Niall said huskily , a wealth of controlled feeling in the way he held her from him to look down at her . |
| 13 | She had never liked Mona Rigby — who would n't have been chosen twice for the coveted role if the staff had known as much about her as did Brenda — and she was n't sure that she really liked Miss Foley . |
| 14 | The creep will also say things like , ‘ Oh , I know just how you feel ’ or ‘ I hear what you say ’ , and by the end of the interview you 'll know as much about them as they know about you . |
| 15 | It is our counterpart to the psychoanalyst 's ‘ training analysis ’ ( or simulated illness and cure ) , a traumatic endurance test in which the tyro anthropologist discovers almost as much about himself as about the people he has come to study . |
| 16 | It is vitally important because non-verbal signals tell other people as much about you as what you actually say to them . |
| 17 | Other signals may be rooted in our own culture or sub-culture — our clothes and our hair styles , for example , tell other people as much about us as what we say and the way we behave . |
| 18 | Undeterred by his early disasters , he decided to persevere with photography by first learning as much about it as he possible could . |
| 19 | Shifty-Eyes could n't do much about it as I was hanging on to his foot . |
| 20 | LUKE PERRY flashes a smile that sends teenage girls wild … and explains why his most famous fan , Madonna , will NOT be seeing as much of him as she 'd hoped . |
| 21 | He made pressure of work into an excuse for not seeing as much of her as usual . |
| 22 | Heaven forbid , but the urge to shoehorn into the calendar as much of it as possible continues unabated , leading at times to brain-numbing events such as the three-match Pakistan versus England knockabout immediately after the World Cup — which was a bit like lighting the cigar after a five-course a la carte dinner , then having the waiter arrive with a tureen of porridge . |
| 23 | Your first hour — or as much of it as you care to spend there . |
| 24 | This corner of France has plenty to offer everybody and we recommend you try to see as much of it as possible . |
| 25 | The best that was on offer from the National Refugee Service in New York was cooperation to ‘ get in touch with American relatives and affiants and attempting to secure the steamship fare , or as much of it as possible , from them ’ . |
| 26 | Just let me know what I have to sign — make as much of it as possible over to yourself , and get on with it . |
| 27 | Anyway , the crux of the problem involves coaxing your reluctant body around the arête , while attempting to keep as much of it as possible crammed into the now less-than-accommodating horizontal break . |
| 28 | ‘ Please stand up and recite as much of it as you can . ’ |
| 29 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 30 | She seemed to assess their position and then go quickly back to the carrion as if she was very hungry and sought to take as much of it as she could before the crows reached her . |