Example sentences of "have [adv] [adj] [noun] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has as many selves as he has utterances , virtual or realized , as many selves as there are words in his lexicon , even in the dictionary of his potential language , with each word its aetimology , its phoneyetic fragility and its semiantic sea changes , each word its infinite contiguities and its tall spokes of paradismatic possibilities . |
| 2 | He is obliged to work in great haste , and so achieves nothing worthwhile , but nevertheless there is no one who has as much ability as he . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The beast has as much food as he wants . |
| 4 | However , if Venus has always had as little water as it seems to have today then it may never have been able to achieve such high surface temperatures . |
| 5 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 6 | Do you have as much influence as them ? |
| 7 | ‘ Like all hospitals , we do n't have as much money as we would like but generally speaking things for us have been getting better , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ If I can get on board ship again , ’ I said , ‘ you can have as much cheese as you want . ’ |
| 9 | But a lot more , I feel sorry for my grandchildren , where they ca n't have as much fun as I used to have , kicking a tin . |
| 10 | You can have as much blood as you want . |
| 11 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 12 | I think it 's about twenty quid a head , but you can actually have as many meals as you want , or as many puddings as you want . |
| 13 | Like 1-2-3 and SuperCalc , Quattro Pro lets you see the different sheets on-screen at the same time , but you can have as many windows as you like — tiled , tiered , or whatever ! |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't have as many men as you , ’ he replied angrily . |
| 15 | You may have as many sheets as you need ; ask the invigilator . |
| 16 | They can have as many boyfriends as they want . |
| 17 | Women soon learn that with their anatomy and a modicum of allure they can have as many penises as they want . |
| 18 | He retaliates by wishing : ( " That you should have as many cunts as I have pricks on me " ) |
| 19 | He does n't seem to have as much holiday as me cos I get nearly six weeks a year now . |
| 20 | ‘ And the house is big enough for you to have as many friends as you want to visit you . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've little enough time as it is . ’ |
| 22 | But Jack had only one thought as he and Tina ran down the broken tarmac of the estate road , finally arriving breathless at the front door of the Shepherd 's house . |
| 23 | Coming from Australia to the " frozen north " , Margaret had only one question as she stepped from the aircraft . |
| 24 | But Commander Roy Penrose , who organised yesterday 's raids , said : ‘ We do not believe they had as much explosives as they claimed . |
| 25 | If the families who received our hampers had as much pleasure as we did in planning them , then it was all worth while . |
| 26 | From then on , the school had as much reason as I did to feel rejected , and if they perceived my rejection as vengeful , they were right . |
| 27 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 28 | This division of support had potentially serious consequences as it was commonly accepted that all four constituent groups had to be united behind a single candidate if the Democrats were to regain of the White House . |
| 29 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 30 | And I hope they have as much fun as we used to when we were younger . ’ |