Example sentences of "[det] [noun] as [pron] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 2 | Even depressed Fort William takes on a magnificence from this height as it glitters and reflects the late evening sun . |
| 3 | The Japanese like to negotiate each issue as it arises and there is an assumption that each party is prepared to make substantial accommodations to the other . |
| 4 | Here in Cripo Rison you can buy as much mercury as you like and no questions are asked . |
| 5 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 6 | They can make as much mess as they like and when the weather 's nice they can spill out into the garden . ’ |
| 7 | If you 're really lucky , you get to fly to Hula Girl Paradise where you can drink as much lemonade as you like and share a jacuzzi with some grass-skirted hula-hula dancers . |
| 8 | Japan does not have the facilities to produce as much plutonium as it needs and plans to import 153 tonnes of the highly volatile material from Britain and France between 1992 and 2000 . |
| 9 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 10 | The argument that Linguistics-based courses are impracticable , cited a number of difficulties that are real enough , arguing that there is not time in a course already fragmented , and asserting that there were not enough people equipped to design and teach such courses as we envisaged and advocated . |
| 11 | ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over . |
| 12 | Make as many photocopies as you need and divide the class into four rocket teams . |
| 13 | It 's alright for you to lie to us as many times as you want but when we 'd asked you once you get in a mood and walk off and do n't talk to us . |
| 14 | If my comments appear to be churlish , perhaps you would like to attend next year having won as many awards as you did and suffer the embarrassment of being approached by clients and peers to be asked sympathetically whether you had won anything . |
| 15 | You c You can er you can in fact have up to er you can find in you ex in your will as many people as you like but no more than four executors can prove at any one time . |
| 16 | ‘ They can set as many deadlines as they like and there is nothing we can do about it , ’ commented Barnet company secretary Stanley Beller . |
| 17 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 18 | It 's just that I do n't have the same taste as she does and she always wants me to have what she wants . |
| 19 | Careful descriptions of speech are necessary because people 's beliefs about their actual linguistic behaviour are often very inaccurate ; many people think they speak in the same way as they write but , in fact , no one does . |
| 20 | Then he gave the calves almost the same treatment as I had and we left . |
| 21 | Ron and I take each year as it comes and we always plan for me to run a personal best every season . |
| 22 | passed through , because they did n't stop at Needham and er but I always thought , you see , there were , I do n't know several clerks in that office as I remember but I ca n't remember who they were anyway I did n't have , we did n't have much to do with them . |