Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [adj] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made me as proud as anything I achieved in my career . ’ |
| 2 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 3 | ‘ It wo n't make me as sick as what you have in mind , ’ she told him recklessly . |
| 4 | you 'll have to give it as little as it you know |
| 5 | Is it as soft as what you think though for him ? |
| 6 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |