Example sentences of "[to-vb] to as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Bob , laughing , says that some of the crew are here , as much for him to talk to as for their tour responsibilities : ‘ Because if we were n't having a good time with our friends we could n't do this . ’ |
| 2 | In comparison with accountants , bank managers , NHS doctors and estate agents , they were found to be as easy to talk to as bank managers and easier to talk to than all the others bar NHS doctors , to be easier to understand than accountants and estate agents , to be more efficient than accountants and estate agents , to be more hardworking than accountants , bank managers and estate agents , to be as dependable as bank managers and more dependable than accountants and estate agents , to be as up-to-date as accountants and more up-to-date than estate agents . |
| 3 | It 's a change , but er it 's a change to have somebody to talk to as well ! is n't it ? |
| 4 | yeah , I 'm going into Woolworths , you have to go to as well |
| 5 | Now , that 's what I wanted to go to as well . |
| 6 | would n't understand , it 's just hard work when you 've got the rest of the family to see to as well . |
| 7 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 8 | The friend , Frank , had no home to return to as his only relative , his father , had been killed and his home destroyed by a landmine during the ‘ May Blitz ’ . |